postfix rbl checks [fixed]

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Tue Jul 24 09:25:23 IST 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 10:48, Gareth wrote:
> I have been checking the RBL stats using mailwatch and the NJABL one
> looks like it will reject about 50% of the spam we receive with no false
> positives.
> 
> In my postfix configuration I had the line :-
> 
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
> reject_unauth_destination, reject_unknown_recipient_domain,
> reject_unverified_recipient
> 
> I changed this to :-
> 
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
> reject_unauth_destination, reject_unknown_recipient_domain,
> reject_unverified_recipient, reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org
> 
> However after restarting postfix it is not working. Spam is still being
> accepted and mailscanner is matching some against the NJABL RBL.
> 
> Any ideas what is going wrong?

Fixed the problem. dnsbl.njabl.org does not include their dialup list.
For this you need to use their separate entry or do as I did and use
combined.njabl.org.



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