Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
On 08.10.07 14:56, John Rudd wrote:
I see in another thread a discussion about what people want to see in SA
RBL support. I thought I'd throw in my $.02.
I want a non-binary setting for "use RBLs or not".
I want:
use_rbls zen.spamhaus.org list.dsbl.org foo.bar.baz
AFAIK you can always disable checking specified RBLs by setting their score
to 0, e.g.
score __RCVD_IN_ZEN 0
I think you need to re-read what I wrote. I specifically was arguing
against that technique. It's obtuse and a waste of people's time to
force them to track down these scores with every new release (yes, you
put them in your site wide cf file, but you still have to track them
down, because they sometimes change names and sometimes new ones show up
or old ones disappear). If had read what I wrote the first time, you
wouldn't need to be re-told that now.
Advantages:
1) if new RBLs get added in an upgrade or update, I don't have to
track them down and disable them (I only use RBLs which I locally cache,
to keep performance from being terrible, so when SA adds new ones, it's
incredibly annoying). If they're not in my explicit list, then they're
disabled by default. If someone wants to always use the SA
current/default RBLs, they can just set it to "all".
I used RBLs even when they were not cached and I didn't have problem. Even
if/when they timeout, it only causes small delay between receiving mail and
delivering it to mailbox.
The mail flow on my machines is heavy enough that when the zones I use
aren't cached, I notice the difference. And I'm not on a slow network link.
2) the zone name never changes, so I don't have to care what the
rule names might be (in case they get changed, as has happened a few
times, and, as above, the result tends to be rather annoying).
wrong. the zen.spamhaus.org changed some time ago from sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
and others may change in the future too.
wrong. sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org did not change names. It was a different
zone with different content. They specifically _created_ the
zen.spamhaus.org zone _instead_ of changing the name of
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org to sbl-xbl-pbl.spamhaus.org. For a while (and
perhaps still) sbl-xbl still existed while zen was in operation.
Different zones. Different content. One did not change names to become
the other.
