OT: cut off by spamhaus free use?
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Mon Dec 3 00:32:13 GMT 2007
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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