Help! ....We are taking 120k msgs per day and climbing

[hermit921]

At 12:48 PM 6/16/2004, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>Hi!
>
> > > FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org', `"550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to
> > > <"$&f"> thru "$&{client_name}" by The Spamhaus SBL+XBL DNSBL
> > > ; Please visit
> > > http://www.spamhaus.org/ for more information."')dnl
>
> > I just put the above line in my sendmail.mc, and already I'm seeing
> > rejections based on it :)  And it looks like load is going down on my
> > server too.  I have one question though: the messages generated look
> > something like this:
> >
> > reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to <> thru host242-37.po
> > ol82187.interbusiness.it by The Spamhaus SBL+XBL DNSBL ; Please visit
> > http://www
> > .spamhaus.org/ for more information.
> >
> > My question is:  What's supposed to be in <>?  Do I have something not
> > set up properly on my sendmail?  This is the stock sendmail that comes
> > w/FC1...
>
>If you want to do RBL rejects i really would suggest you start using DSBL
>for that. SpamHaus is i think also nice, but i'd first check with DSBL.
>
>Bye,
>Raymond.



For the last week or so I have been counting my personal spam.  I know this
is really spam.  80% of it would have been caught by CBL, a little under
half by DSBL.  Out of curiousity I checked several dozen non-spams, and
none of them would have been caught by CBL.

hermit921

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