Tips on how to use ruleset for 'Spam Lists To Be Spam'

[Julian Field]

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Don't use more than 2 or maybe 3 lists in the "Spam List" setting, it 
will grind your system to a crawl with serial DNS lookups.

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Dnsadmin 1bigthink.com wrote on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:43:59 -0400:
> 
>> They are good, long-used and trusted BLs. 
>>  
>> Spam List = SBL+XBL SPEWS ORDB-RBL spamcop.net spamhaus.org 
>> spamhaus-XBL SORBS-S 
>> PAM SORBS-ZOMBIE SORBS-HTTP DSBL SORBS-DNSBL SORBS-SMTP SORBS-WEB 
>> SORBS-BLOCK NJ 
>> ABL
> 
> long-trusted, reliable? And you use Spews? That's a contradiction. Also, 
> it seems to me that you are duplicating RBLs. Inform yourself what these 
> lists actually contain. You'll see that some of them are already part of 
> others you use. Also, honestly, using umpteen lists doesn't give you any 
> advantage over a few *really* carefully chosen ones. They are just 
> duplicating their results. You gain something like 1% more accuracy with 
> 5fold more ressource usage.
> 
>> How can I set up a ruleset like this for individual users or 
>> individual domains? 
>> #Spam Lists To Be Spam = /etc/MailScanner/spam.lists.count
> 
> I don't see how this would help you much. Why don't you whitelist those 
> users? You apparently know them, so ... Or just whitelist those servers, 
> I'm not aware that they are a source for much spam, they don't appear in 
> my logs.
> 
> 
> Kai
> 

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