We've seen false positives with both spamhaus and njabl.  I would not use
them due to the fact that they do block some legitimate email.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Francesco Vertova
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [xmail] Re: Reducing spam


At 22.25 01/10/06, you wrote:

>Hi list.  Spam seems to be getting to rediculous levels so I'm trying to
re=
>duce the number of spam messages I am receiving in my xmail server.
>
>I started by uncommenting the line in server.tab:
>"CustMapsList" 
>"list.dsbl.org.:1,blackholes.mail-abuse.org.:1,dialups.mail-abuse.org.:0"

My CustMapsList is
bl.spamcop.net:0,combined.njabl.org:0,sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org:0

And I run greylist as a predata filter. And my postdata AV filter 
performs some checks on the ClientDomain. Together, they catch almost 
all spam (and viruses).

As to dns blacklists: spamhaus and njabl are virtually 0 false 
positives (provided you give auth'ed dialup users a way to bypass 
them). Spamcop requires some whitelisting from time to time, but not too
much.

I had to stop using sorbs and blackholes.five-ten because of too many 
false positives.

Anyway, I think you have to experiment with dnsbl: no one is the best 
for everyone, it depends on your specific situation (geographic 
location, traffic patterns etc.).

Ciao, Francesco

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