Perfect. Oh, and, I only wanted to explain why it'd be important for me to deselect features of spamdyke that don't fit my needs.
Martin Am 21.06.2010 um 18:09 schrieb Eric Shubert: > You can use whichever features you choose. It's up to you. > > Of course fighting spam is always a balancing act with a wide array of > dependencies. Finding the best balance takes some doing. The flexiblity that > spamyke provides makes it useful in most circumstances. > > Note, I don't necessarily agree with your policy, but I don't see any purpose > in debating it here. If it works for you, great. However, you can use a lot > more of spamdyke's filters than one RBL, without getting any false positives. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > Martin Waschbuesch wrote: >> Thanks for the explanation Eric & Michael, >> I would like to use SpamDyke, but only very ver conservatively. E.g. if I >> could block people that I block now (cbl.abuseat.org) during SMTP, that >> would be great. The other features like greylisting etc., I would not like >> to use. >> My own policy (as long as my mail server has the bandwidth to handle it) is >> to let anything in that *might* be legit. I know that people with wrong DNS >> setup should not send out mail into the world like that, but I prefer this >> to just add to their spam score in spamassassin instead of blocking people >> who just don't know better. (They need educating, not blocking) and it IS >> hard to explain false positives to endusers... As I explained in a different >> post, my setup does not throw stuff away, but puts spam into a 'dubious >> looking' folder and users have to decide what to do with it - which is what >> they got for complaining about said false positives too often ;-) >> Anyway, Is it possible to use SpamDyke for just that? a very conservative >> DNSBL like abuseat and nothing else?? >> Martin >> Am 21.06.2010 um 17:01 schrieb Eric Shubert: >>> I agree with Michael that spamdyke is great. Highly recommended. >>> >>> I'd like to clarify the tcpserver -h option though. This option does do an >>> rDNS lookup which is duplicative with spamdyke, but I think it's best to do >>> both, as they're used for different purposes. Spamdyke uses rDNS for >>> blocking. Tcpserver's -h option simply sets the TCPREMOTEHOST variable, >>> which does no blocking of any kind, but does provide more complete logging >>> messages. The overhead of the duplicate rDNS lookup is negligible >>> (immeasurable I expect), since the lookup is cached. That's why I think >>> it's best to have both. >>> >>> Sam C (spamdyke's author) discusses this (and other things) here: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00842.html >>> >>> -- >>> -Eric 'shubes' >>> >>> Michael Colvin wrote: >>>> Are you using SpamDyke? If so, and you are checking for RDNS there, that >>>> would seem duplicative to me. I block any mail server that does not have >>>> RDNS using SpamDyke. Better to stop it there than waste time scanning it >>>> with SpamAssassin... >>>> Michael J. Colvin >>>> NorCal Internet Services >>>> www.norcalisp.com >>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Martin Waschbuesch [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 1:57 AM >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] spamassassin >>>>> >>>>> Found it myself: >>>>> >>>>> In /var/qmail/supervise/smtp/run, I had forgotten to enable rDNS (default >>>>> seems to be off), by changing the -H flag to -h. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Martin >>>>> >>>>> Am 20.06.2010 um 10:48 schrieb Martin Waschbuesch: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> There is something weird I noticed in my logs: every email I receive >>>>> gets marked as RDNS_NONE by spamassassin. This was not the case with my >>>>> previous setup. lookup and reverse lookup work, so I am at a loss as to >>>>> why this is? 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