Re: rbl clients.
Thank you everyone!! Lot of information. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Res r...@ausics.net wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Linux Addict wrote: reject_rbl_client blackholes.easynet.nl,reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org,reject_rbl_client proxies.blackholes.wirehub.net, reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org,reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org, reject_rbl_client multihop.dsbl.org,permit As others have mentioned, some of these have been dead for a long time, and with others, you are doing twice the work, since some RBL's interact with each other. We find the following work great, some recommend using spamhaus first, on my private mail server I use it last, to keep under their 'hits per day', I don't use spamhaus on employers because of the 'hits per day', and I cant justify the rates they want, I find even at home I only get one or two hits in a blue moon from spamhaus because SORBS and spamcop end up stopping pretty much all of it. Privately I use: reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org reject_rbl_client dnsbl.sorbs.net reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net reject_rbl_client b.barracudacentral.org (you need to register, but its free) reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org commercially we use: reject_rbl_client dnsbl.sorbs.net reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net reject_rbl_client b.barracudacentral.org and along with things like reject_unknown_client_hostname reject_unknown_helo_hostname reject_invalid_helo_hostname reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_non_fqdn_recipient we also use sendmails milter-regex with all these combined, its rare spam gets through to MailScanner to deal with. (milter regex rules used: http://kb.ausics.net/sendmail/milter-regex.conf) -- Res All we need, is just a little patience -- William Bruce (Axl) Rose
Re: rbl clients.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Linux Addict wrote: reject_rbl_client blackholes.easynet.nl,reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org,reject_rbl_client proxies.blackholes.wirehub.net, reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org,reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org, reject_rbl_client multihop.dsbl.org,permit As others have mentioned, some of these have been dead for a long time, and with others, you are doing twice the work, since some RBL's interact with each other. We find the following work great, some recommend using spamhaus first, on my private mail server I use it last, to keep under their 'hits per day', I don't use spamhaus on employers because of the 'hits per day', and I cant justify the rates they want, I find even at home I only get one or two hits in a blue moon from spamhaus because SORBS and spamcop end up stopping pretty much all of it. Privately I use: reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org reject_rbl_client dnsbl.sorbs.net reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net reject_rbl_client b.barracudacentral.org (you need to register, but its free) reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org commercially we use: reject_rbl_client dnsbl.sorbs.net reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net reject_rbl_client b.barracudacentral.org and along with things like reject_unknown_client_hostname reject_unknown_helo_hostname reject_invalid_helo_hostname reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_non_fqdn_recipient we also use sendmails milter-regex with all these combined, its rare spam gets through to MailScanner to deal with. (milter regex rules used: http://kb.ausics.net/sendmail/milter-regex.conf) -- Res All we need, is just a little patience -- William Bruce (Axl) Rose
Re: rbl clients.
http://stats.dnsbl.com/ As victor said, ZEN is usually enough for most people, but it's always good to know why you're not using the rest. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Linux Addict linuxaddi...@gmail.com wrote: Please see below my smtpd_recipient_restrictions. On my rbl client list I have multiple entries, but not sure how many of them actually maintained. Is there one single place where I can find such a list. Any help is greatly appreciated. smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_non_fqdn_hostname, reject_invalid_hostname, permit smtpd_recipient_limit = 300 smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated,reject_unauth_destination, reject_invalid_hostname,reject_unauth_pipelining, reject_non_fqdn_sender,reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_non_fqdn_recipient,reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_rbl_client blackholes.easynet.nl,reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org,reject_rbl_client proxies.blackholes.wirehub.net, reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org,reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org, reject_rbl_client multihop.dsbl.org,permit ~LA
