Just subscribed to the spamhaus data feed

[Martin.Hepworth]

Gareth

Correct - giving RBL's a zero score stops them running....you *may* want to think about turning all (or most) of the other RBLS's off as well. I find it can take along time to query all 20 odd of the RBL's otherwise ;-)

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Gareth
> Sent: 17 August 2007 09:28
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Just subscribed to the spamhaus data feed
>
> I have just subscribed to the spamhaus data feed service and configured
> the RBL in postfix.
>
> In the spamassassin configuration I have added the following scores
> which I believe is all I need to do to stop spamassassin trying to query
> the spamhaus public dns servers. Is this correct?
>
> score __RCVD_IN_ZEN 0
> score RCVD_IN_SBL 0
> score RCVD_IN_XBL 0
> score RCVD_IN_PBL 0
>
> Would there be any advantage to creating rules to get spamassassin to
> query the data feed. I assume spamassassin checks all the headers so
> there might be an advantage in some cases?
> The data feed is held on the local server so there will be practically
> no performance hit.
>
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