rbls in sendmail

[Ken Anderson]

Support ePaxsys/FRWS wrote:

> Hi
>
> 'Personally' we run the RBLs all from inside Sendmail and use MailScanner
> for virus checks and rudimentary SPAM checks only. DNSBL set up for
> Sendmail is a piece of cake.

But AFAIK, it doesn't check received headers like SpamAssassin does.
That's why I'm not wanting to lose that ability by moving the rbl checks
into sendmail. There seem to be a couple milters that check received
headers. I'm just fishing for anyone's experience with them.
Thanks,
Ken A


> We use 5 or 6 DNSBLs including the SBL-XBL SpamHaus list.
>
> The load on our busiest mail server is rarely above 2 or maybe 3 handling
> tens of thousands of mails a day. Hats off to the MailScanner folks for a
> versatile and friendly program. We just leave the DNSBL stuff to Sendmail
> to lessen the server load and make log parsing/stats far easier.
>
> The J-Chkmail Milter does 'some' SPAM trapping (only REAL obvious SPAM,
> non-negotiable types) and Procmail does the final SPAM handling for us.
>
> Regards
> Jerome
>
>
> At 03:35 PM 4/8/04 -0700, Ken Anderson wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm thinking of moving SBL-XBL and maybe SURBL tests to sendmail.
>> Anyone running sendmail with some rblchecks via a milter that checks
>> received headers too?
>>
>> Any recommendations?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken A
>> Pacific.Net
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