Recommended spam.lists and/or sendmail dnsbl settings?

[Scott Silva]

on 12/4/2007 8:17 AM Johnny Stork spake the following:
> With the ongoing changes to various RBL's and the recent threads on 
> spamhaus, can someone recommend or share a good/current spam.lists file 
> along with a recommended "Spam List =" line? and/or sendmail.mc dnsbl 
> settings?
> 
> I used to have
> 
> Spam List = spamhaus-ZEN spamhaus.org spamcop.net
> 
> Also, from what I understand, adding the DNSBL to sendmail will block 
> mail without passing into MS, and setting/using them in MS and NOT 
> sendmail will score and tag offending mail.
> 
> Can someone suggest an optimal combination of sendmail dnsbl and MS 
> "Spam List=" settings? Should I use both? or just one based on whether I 
> want to block/tag SPAM?
> 
> 
> This is what I currently have in sendmail.mc
> 
> FEATURE(`dnsbl',`sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org', `"554 Rejected " $&{client_addr} 
> " - see http://www.spamhaus.org/SBL/"')dnl
> FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.njabl.org', `"554 Rejected " $&{client_addr} " - 
> see http://dnsbl.njabl.org/method.html"')dnl
> FEATURE(`dnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net',         `"554 Rejected " 
> $&{client_addr} " found in bl.spamcop.net"')dnl
> FEATURE(`dnsbl', `chinanet.blackholes.us', `"554 Rejected " 
> $&{client_addr} " found in chinanet.blackholes.us"')dnl
> 
> 
> 
If you put your spamhaus lookups at the bottom, you will generate less traffic 
to them. The sendmail RBL lookups are serial and stop on the first positive.
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