Recommended spam.lists and/or sendmail dnsbl settings?

[Joost Waversveld]

Steve Freegard wrote:
> Joost Waversveld wrote:
>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>> on 12/4/2007 5:57 PM Budi Febrianto spake the following:
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> Spamcop will probably catch a large portion, at least 60% or better.
>>> You could also put cbl.abuseat.org before spamhaus, even if it is a 
>>> double lookup, because that list is a significant portion of the zen 
>>> list, and will cut lookups to zen even more.
>>>
>> Because of your message I was looking on the website of the 
>> cbl.abuseat.org and founf on http://cbl.abuseat.org/faq.html the 
>> following text:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>
>> If you wish to download the CBL zone, YOU MUST register
>>
>> WARNING: it is CBL policy that spam filter and spam filter service 
>> vendors MUST obtain a paid-for feed from Spamhaus. Filter providers 
>> that do not have a paid-for feed from Spamhaus, or who have not 
>> registered for the CBL feed, MAY find themselves inhibited from 
>> obtaining a CBL feed without warning.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>
>>
>> I do not know how they count the connections to the servers, but 
>> officially you will still need an paid-for feed from Spamhaus.
>>
>
> That text is talking about downloading the *zone file* via rsync, not 
> querying the public mirrors.
>
> Regards,
> Steve.
Ok, then it is a good solution. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Regards, Joost Waversveld