OT: quick question about sorbs

[Richard Frovarp]

Chris Yuzik wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> For some reason, Sorbs keeps blacklisting IPs that belong to Google.com.
> I regularly see lines in the maillog that look like so:
>
> Jul 21 15:15:04 devel sendmail[7342]: m6LNEwH4007323:
> ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<user at example.ca>, relay=ag-out-0708.google.com
> [72.14.246.247], reject=554 5.7.1 Rejected 72.14.246.247 found in
> safe.dnsbl.sorbs.net
>
> Is there an easy (yet also safe) way of still using sorbs but explicitly
> allowing email from Google in to the server? Something tells me this
> will be done as an entry to /etc/mail/access, but I'm not sure if that
> overrides the RBLs that are specified in sendmail.mc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers
>
>   
Yeah, safe.dnsbl.sorbs.net isn't very safe in my opinion. Safe includes 
new.spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net which will hit Google (and probably others) 
from time to time. You could instead just use the parts of sorbs that 
you do consider to be okay. Results in more lookups, but I've found 
new.spam makes safe.dnsbl unacceptable to use.