RE: [qmailtoaster] Spamassassin how-to improve spam catch

[Jared Markell]

Well, the real solution would be for you to get your IP unblocked.   And about the blacklists you put in your blacklists file, just a note to keep in mind, that for each of the addresses you add to that list, is another lookup the toaster has to check against before allowing the email into your system. If you have 10 addresses in your blacklists file, that's 10 lookups your server has to do for every email inbound. On medium to high volume servers, this can drastically clog your server to a very poor condition where incoming emails will get bounced just because the server has too many emails waiting to come in. Just something to keep in mind..   Is the line below the actual contents of your blacklist? "-r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org -r bl.spamcop.net -r bl.csma.biz -r spamsources.fabel.dk -r dnsbl.njabl.org -r relays.ordb.org -r d"   If so, you need to remove the last "-r d". That is a bad typo. Heck, removing this could solve your problems all together.   Taking into what I said before about having too many files in the blacklists file; The way I solved my spam issues was to use just the spamcop BL lookup, but also use Rules Du Jour spam assassin rules. Also, I lowered my spam ratings to 4 and 8. (4 to get marked as SPAM, 8 to get deleted). The default is 5 and 12. I think those are too lenient.   Jared From: ashok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:36 AM To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Subject: RE: [qmailtoaster] Spamassassin how-to improve spam catch Hello Frnds,,   Even I was facing  problem with SPAM .. which I use to get like Viagra , necklace watches , antrim etc….   And I enabled   -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org -r bl.spamcop.net -r bl.csma.biz -r spamsources.fabel.dk -r dnsbl.njabl.org -r relays.ordb.org -r d   Now the problem I faced is …   My gateway IP address got Blacklisted ..when I check in www.dnsstuff.com  [ SPAM Database ]  due to this my LAN users are not able to send emails.   Pls suggest me wat I need to do.   Thanks in advance..   Regards ashok   From: Marco Cordeiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:15 PM To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Subject: RE: [qmailtoaster] Spamassassin how-to improve spam catch   ok,  I enable this feature too and so far so good ;-))   (I did the test describe in wiki page and seems to be working).   thanks , Jake.   From: Jake Vickers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:26 AM To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Spamassassin how-to improve spam catch Marco Cordeiro wrote: I did this :   -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org -r bl.spamcop.net -r bl.csma.biz -r spamsources.fabel.dk -r dnsbl.njabl.org -r relays.ordb.org -r d nsbl.antispam.or.id -r opm.blitzed.org -r list.dsbl.org -r cbl.abuseat.org I'll watch for 1 week to know what's will happens   That does help a lot (as long as Spamhaus remains alive), but you'll probably still want to follow the instructions here: http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/SURBL (sorry, I posted it as URIBL, but it's really under SURBL). As long as you have the memory to spare for this, it's a great addition.