RBL checking

[Ed Kasky]

At 02:08 PM Tuesday, 5/4/2004, jason wrote -=>
>Just wanted to see what people thought about the various RBL's. Which ones
>are good, which are bad etc.
>
>Also, I'm working on a script of some sort (command even) that will parse
>my logs and be able to sort out some statistics to see the stats on how
>many rejections each specific RBL is doing...
>
>Be nice to get a print out of some sort to see a nice break down...

As you can tell by the mail volume, we have a small business with one mail
server.  Since 4 am Sunday, 843 emails were rejected either by an rbl, a
virus detection or an entry in the access.db.  That's nearly half of the email.

Of what does get through, slightly less than 10% is spam.

SpamAssassin Results:
spam: 73
clean: 796
skipped: 0
total: 869
processed: 869
=========================================
Blocked by access.db and rbl's:
open relay: 83
bad domain: 21
isp ignores spam reports: 9
failed ip name lookup: 3
can't report to postmaster: 40
no authentication: 17
access denied: 69
spamhaus: 85
spamcop: 168
maps rbl+: 174
dsbl.org: 11
njabl.org: 44
total rejected: 724

**Virus trapped: 19
=========================================
What I did was to take Rich Puhek's script and add to it based on my setup:
http://users.2z.net/rpuhek/scripts_public/spamd/spam-stats

I continue to build the access.db with results from collected spam using some
scripts that were written by one of the developers of SpamAssassin.


Ed
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