OT: cut off by spamhaus free use?

[Scott Silva]

on 12/2/2007 1:45 PM Jeff A. Earickson spake the following:
> Gang,
> 
> Has anybody ever had SpamHaus cut off the free use of DNSBL
> for your site?  All of our inbound email started getting this:
> 
> reject=451 4.4.3 Temporary lookup failure of [IP number] at 
> zen.spamhaus.org
> 
> on Saturday morning.  I removed Zen usage from my sendmail config and my 
> email started flowing in again.  I looked at their usage page 
> (http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html)
> and believe I meet their qualifications (I use caching DNS on our
> sendmail box too).  But maybe they disagree; I haven't heard back.
> 
> Anybody else ever had the rug pulled out from under their email?
> 
> BTW, MailScanner and SpamAssassin are doing a great job of killing
> spam, even without any DNSBL in the mix.  Today's numbers so far:
> 
> Total messages scanned:        23070
> Total spams tagged:            12240
> Total spams delivered:         715
> Total spams deleted:           11612
> 
> Way to go Julian!  We hope you get your new liver for Christmas too.
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
I got cut off in october, but I didn't have fails, just weird mail problems 
with some senders. I also look like I am below the threshold, but I had a spam 
storm about then that must have thrown me over. Plus, spamassasssin by default 
does multiple lookups to the base lists, and I am assuming that every lookup 
counts. I have since added 4 or 5 other rbl's to get about the same removal rate.

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