There are two other things you can do to avoid hitting limits.
Maybe the obvious one: Contact the DNSBL.
Back when I was running masscheck I reached out to a couple places that
blocked me due to volume and they were happy to work with me to make
arrangements at no cost since I was contributing to the community as a
whole (and contributing to the community using their DNSBL in an
indirect fashion).
I stopped running masscheck at least a couple years ago as I no longer
have a representative mail stream that I can sample, and of course the
landscape may have changed.
I also already ran my own wrbldnsd installation on my live mail server,
and therefore was in a position to accept rsync based rbldnsd formatted
files.
The other thing I did on my masscheck box was to configure my DNS
resolver with a minimum TTL of some hours. Since we are checking mail
that is relatively ancient anyway, who cares if a particular DNS request
is 5 minutes or 3 hours old? This reduced the number of DNS queries
hitting "the world" considerably and was probably sufficient to stay
under limits. Be sure to increase the negative TTL cache as well.
On 2021-08-01 07:53, Henrik K wrote:
Change what? Not use --net?
Obviously we can't do that, otherwise stuff like DKIM_VALID won't hit and
things like that will affect many meta rules too.
I've advocated that all mass checkers should make use of --reuse, that way
no network lookups are even required and hits actually reflect what happened
during the original mail handling. It's pretty much pointless to query
blacklists weeks after the mail was received, it's not accurate. And also
like mentioned you might get ratelimited and abuse the lists with
unnecessary queries..
Cheers,
Henrik
On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 03:30:01PM +0200, Marcin Miros??aw wrote:
Hi,
others are rather quiet so maybe it can be changed?
W dniu 2021-01-17 o 17:32, Kevin A. McGrail pisze:
Marcin,
I don't think masscheck really affects what RBLs we include or the
scores except when we are considering adding or removing them.
I would be +1 for changing that behavior but defer to others to weigh in
first.
Regards,
KAM
On 1/17/2021 10:49 AM, Marcin Miros?aw wrote:
Hi!
I've run masscheck on my host with MTA, after weekly masscheck my host
is blocked by uribl for sometime.
I think that weekly masscheck has incorrect results due to ratelimit of
uribl and I receive more spam for sometime ;)
Does it make sense to run weekley masscheck with --net when it can't
return correct results?
Marcin
