RBL's

[Peter Ong]

> I'm on Barracuda, CBL (sorbs replacement) and Spamcop. They stop just
> as much (800k each per day) and they don't seem to be blocking
> everyone. I've had so many emails this week about Sorbs, I've just had
> enough of them.!!

BTW, Barracuda is second worst; Sorbs being the number 1 spot. FYI.

p

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Richard Mealing" <richard at fastnet.co.uk>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:34:05 AM
> Subject: RE: RBL's
> 
> Thanks for all the comments, I'm not using Sorbs any longer.
> 
> I'm on Barracuda, CBL (sorbs replacement) and Spamcop. They stop just
> as much (800k each per day) and they don't seem to be blocking
> everyone. I've had so many emails this week about Sorbs, I've just had
> enough of them.!!
> 
> Have a good weekend all!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of
> Mohammed Alli
> Sent: 11 June 2010 16:37
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: RBL's
> 
> I am currently doing rbl, greylist and spf checks the same way as
> Perter Ong.  I have postfix handling rbls because I want everything
> blocked at the MTA level.  However, I do have a global whitelist
> access list for postfix, which queries the MailScanner whitelist table
> for lookups.  This bypasses rbl, greylist, spf and mailscanner checks
> for any whitelist entries. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Peter
> Farrow
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:30 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: RBL's
> 
> I do the same, but if you're on an RBL you don't get through, end of
> story...
> 
> P.
> 
> On 11/06/2010 15:20, Peter Ong wrote:
> > My number of users isn't nearly as voluminous as everyone's here,
> but the emails easily reach in the hundreds of thousands. If I
> configure MailScanner such that if an email address is found only in
> one RBL, consider it spam; but SORBS contains many false positives. To
> remedy, I configured MailScanner to consider an email spam if it is
> seen in 2 spam lists. I use all the ones listed in the spam list file
> included with MailScanner.
> >
> > Of course, our spam countermeasures do not rely solely on RBLs, or
> MailScanner for that matter. On top of it, we have implemented
> greylisting.
> >
> > So here's what happens. On the postfix side, we have implemented
> about a dozen RBLs so many are blocked at the postfix level. If they
> get past that, they get greylisted. Those that get through get chewed
> by MailScanner (and sa with the fsl bayes db and full rules emporium
> rules and clamd with stock and unofficial dbs) and then on to the
> users.
> >
> > p
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >    
> >> From: "Richard Mealing"<richard at fastnet.co.uk>
> >> To: "MailScanner discussion"<mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 7:38:23 AM
> >> Subject: RBL's
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> OT I know, I was just wondering what everyone is using for their 
> >> RBL’s at MTA level?
> >>
> >> In light of Sorbs blacklisting everyone at the moment, plus
> SpamHaus 
> >> charging for usage, does anyone have any recommendations?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I’m currently using Barracuda, Sorbs (with about a million white
> list
> >> entries) and spamcop.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Rich
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