Just subscribed to the spamhaus data feed

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Aug 17 10:50:13 IST 2007



Alex Broens wrote:
> On 8/17/2007 10:28 AM, Gareth wrote:
>> 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?
If you zero those rules, and you don't set up any instead, nothing is 
going to use your shiny new data feed!
:-)

Jules

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