Spamhaus

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Our site got dinged for the pay-for-use in December.  I grumbled,
but SpamHaus is well worth the money.  We block between 150K and
200K connections a day with it, far more than the legit email that
we get.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Chris Crymes wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:26:48 -0500
> From: Chris Crymes <ccrymes at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: Spamhaus
> 
> You can check here to see if you meet the free or paid usage.
>
> http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
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>> Eric Merkel wrote:
>>> I got a letter today from spamhaus stating that we are using their
>>> DNSBL and need to start paying for it. I wasn't even aware we were
>>> using it but then remembered that mailscanner is setup to use. I have
>>> a call into them to see what their pricing is so I am not sure it is
>>> even worth it at this point.
>>>
>>> So if I want to disable using spamhaus, do I just need to comment out
>>> the following lines in the spam.lists.conf?
>>>
>>> spamhaus.org                    sbl.spamhaus.org.
>>> spamhaus-XBL                    xbl.spamhaus.org.
>>> spamhaus-PBL                    pbl.spamhaus.org.
>>> spamhaus-ZEN                    zen.spamhaus.org.
>>> SBL+XBL                         sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.
>> No, take them out of your "Spam Lists = " setting in MailScanner.conf.
>>> If I am also using spamassassin, do I need to change it's config to
>>> stop using it? I am running a recent copy of MailScanner on Centos 5.1.
>> Yes, you do. In you spam.assassin.prefs.conf add these lines:
>> score RCVD_IN_SBL 0
>> score RCVD_IN_PBL 0
>> score RCVD_IN_XBL 0
>> and restart MailScanner.
>>
>> Personally, I think the lists are well worth the money, but I get the
>> educational discount :-)
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> ====
>>> Eric Merkel
>>> MetaLINK Technologies, Inc
>>>
>>
>> Jules
>>
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> -- 
> Chris Crymes
> ccrymes at gmail.com
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