Best RBL to use?

Martin Hepworth martinh at solid-state-logic.com
Thu Aug 17 17:31:39 IST 2006


Daniel Maher wrote:
> We use TrendMicro’s RBL service here.  It costs a little more than a 
> dollar (USD) per mailbox, per year, though you can use it from as many 
> MX servers as you want.  We’ve found it to be quite reliable.  To be 
> honest, I don’t think that we’d go back to using a free service at this 
> point.
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> Of course, that’s just our experience – ymmv.
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>  °v°  Daniel Maher
> /(_)\ Administrateur Système Unix
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> *From:* mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] *On Behalf Of 
> *Damian Mendoza
> *Sent:* August 17, 2006 11:28 AM
> *To:* mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> *Subject:* Best RBL to use?
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> Hi,
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> I would like to stop more of the junk messages at the RBL level (via 
> sendmail.mc). I use SpamCop and Spamhaus SBL+XBL currently but they have 
> had false positives from time to time. Do the paid subscriptions like 
> Trend Micro RBL+ work better? I know they are very expensive for 1,000 
> mailboxes.
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> Any others I should be using?
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> Thanks,
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> Damian
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I find the URI-RBLs in Spamassassin more useful at blocking spam, but I 
still use Sorbs and the spamhaus offerrings.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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