cut off by spamhaus free use?

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 18:00:56 GMT 2007


On 04/12/2007, Matt Hayes <mailscanner at slackadelic.com> wrote:
> Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> > Scott Silva a écrit :
> >> on 12/3/2007 11:35 AM Denis Beauchemin spake the following:
> >>> Jeff A. Earickson a écrit :
> >>>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Jeff Mills wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yes!
> >>>>> One of the things I have done in my servers is move the spamhaus
> >>>>> list to
> >>>>> the bottom of my list of RBL's.
> >>>>> That way, spamhaus is only queried when none of the others match. I
> >>>>> find
> >>>>> that spamcop gets more than the others.
> >>> I did the same and so far it is still working:
> >>> cbl.abuseat.org
> >>> dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> >>> web.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> >>> relays.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> >>> rhsbl.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> >>> bl.spamcop.net
> >>> list.dsbl.org
> >>> zen.spamhaus.org
> >> I would move cbl right above zen, as they also have a usage limit.
> >
> > I didn't see any on their web site...
> >>>
> >>> So far today, they blocked:
> >>>           bl.spamcop.net :  13188 (  5 %)
> >>>          cbl.abuseat.org : 131946 ( 57 %)
> >>>      dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net :  57306 ( 25 %)
> >>>            list.dsbl.org :   1320 (  0 %)
> >>>   relays.dnsbl.sorbs.net :     42 (  0 %)
> >>>      web.dnsbl.sorbs.net :   1225 (  0 %)
> >>>         zen.spamhaus.org :  24122 ( 10 %)
> >> What do you run to get this info? Or was it hand compiled? I have been
> >> looking for something I could get some good stats with.
> >
> > I run the attached Bash/Perl script.  It parses my maillog looking for
> > sendmail rejection messages.
> >
> > Denis
> >
>
>
> Nice script.. too bad it doesn't seem to work with postfix :(
>
> -Matt
pflogsumm isn't good enough for you?:-)

One should be able to modify it (the above script...) rather easily
though... Might look at it this weekend, if you don't beat meto it;-)

Cheers
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