postfix rbl checks [fixed]

Richard Frovarp Richard.Frovarp at sendit.nodak.edu
Tue Jul 24 14:14:47 IST 2007


Alex Broens wrote:
> On 7/24/2007 10:25 AM, Gareth wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> afaik: the njabl dialup list is "obsolete", not maintained and has 
> been integrated into Spamhaus' PBL (which is maintained)
>
>
> Alex
>
>
You are correct. See: http://www.njabl.org/dynablock.html




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