Thank you everyone!! Lot of information. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Res <r...@ausics.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Linux Addict wrote: > > reject_rbl_client blackholes.easynet.nl, reject_rbl_client >> cbl.abuseat.org, reject_rbl_client proxies.blackholes.wirehub.net, >> reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net, reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org, >> reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org, reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org, >> reject_rbl_client multihop.dsbl.org, permit >> >> > As others have mentioned, some of these have been dead for a long time, and > with others, you are doing twice the work, since some RBL's interact with > each other. > > We find the following work great, some recommend using spamhaus first, on > my private mail server I use it last, to keep under their 'hits per day', > I don't use spamhaus on employers because of the 'hits per day', and I cant > justify the rates they want, I find even at home I only get one or two hits > in a blue moon from spamhaus because SORBS and spamcop end up stopping > pretty much all of it. > > Privately I use: > reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org > reject_rbl_client dnsbl.sorbs.net > reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net > reject_rbl_client b.barracudacentral.org (you need to register, but its > free) > reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org > > commercially we use: > reject_rbl_client dnsbl.sorbs.net > reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net > reject_rbl_client b.barracudacentral.org > > and along with things like > > reject_unknown_client_hostname > reject_unknown_helo_hostname > reject_invalid_helo_hostname > reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname > reject_non_fqdn_sender > reject_non_fqdn_recipient > > we also use sendmails milter-regex with all these combined, its rare > spam gets through to MailScanner to deal with. > > (milter regex rules used: http://kb.ausics.net/sendmail/milter-regex.conf) > > -- > Res > > "All we need, is just a little patience" -- William Bruce (Axl) Rose >