There's a page that will check ALL the RBL lists against an IP address to see which
ones block it and which ones don't:
<http://relays.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rblcheck.cgi>
I've been testing it against various SPAMS that come through here and the results are
very inconsistent ... some spams are blocked by one list and others are blocked by
another. ORBL seems the most useful and current so far and I've been using that with
great results.
If you're new to using RBL lists be aware that even if the RBL is completely accurate
about only reporting open relays, you will still be blocking legitimate mail from
people at insecure ISP's. If you want to let that mail in you then have to go back and
add those IP addresses to your Client List in SIMS. As an example I currently have
two @home.com IP's which are blocked by ORBL, even though most of the other @home.com
IP's are not blocked. A lot of overseas mail comes over insecure severs and you'll
block a lot of it.
- Paul
At 9:31 PM -0700 7/15/01, Daniel Solomons wrote:
>Hello -
>
>On 7/14/01 7:08 PM, "Tom Wiebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> So what do we do now? We are running email just for our client's sites,
>> not a large list, and the $200/year subscription fee is a little pricey
>> for our needs. Are the new ORBS lists any better than the old one? i.e.
>> are they lists of mail servers that are misconfigured or are they lists
>> of mail servers that the owners of the list have a grudge with, like the
>> old ORBS list?
>
>All three lists seem to be quite different. After an hour of testing with
>hundreds of connections rejected because of spamtraps etc, one ORBS list
>triggered on mail from a Mindspring server (securely closed) and several
>spam sites; another triggered three or four times on closed servers and more
>than a dozen times on open servers; the third only triggered once in three
>days...on a uu.net server...that *was* open. The first two lists appear to
>be using too much of the old ORBS database, but maybe the third list -
>orbz.gst-group.co.uk - has actually tested their addresses before
>publication. I expect all three lists will continue to improve.
>
>Daniel
>
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