> When it comes to adding 'as many' country lists as you can, remember that > each RBL server in your list adds a possible DNS look-up to every SMTP > connection that your SIMS server sees. At one point I went a little nuts > with country blacklists. SIMS started filling its available SMTP channels > with connections that were waiting for RBL look-ups to complete, resulting > in a noticeable performance hit.
What I did is just set up my own DNSBL that's a number of consolidated country blacklists, scripted to re-download and recreate the list on a regular basis. Yesterday's blocking (note that I'm on CGPro, so I also have content filters and internal blacklist by DNS name available to me): Messages delivered: 1498 Sent to bad address: 82 Stopped by blacklists: 16890 Internal blacklist: 4349 blacklist.alfordmedia.com: 5884 cbl.abuseat.org: 6321 opm.blitzed.org: 22 sbl.spamhaus.org: 301 xbl.spamhaus.org: 13 Stopped by content filters: 360 Stopped by spamtraps: 5327 Routed to error: 34 -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
