Recommended spam.lists and/or sendmail dnsbl settings?

Budi Febrianto bfebrian.mailscanner at indomino.net
Wed Dec 5 01:57:28 GMT 2007


Scott Silva wrote:
>> 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.
ah, so if I put zen.spamhaus.org at the bottom of the list, it will 
reduce a lot of query to spamhaus, so I should be safe ( I hope so).
I will put bl.spamcop.net at first, and  two or three others before 
zen.spamhaus.org.

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