I believe Wietse‘s notice is more than sufficient, if not already redundant. Anyone choosing to set up a mail server should at least have a basic understanding of the underlying technical processes.
Moreover, someone who relies on a third-party RBL without respecting its policies is unlikely to read the Postfix documentation carefully. At the end of the day, some people will only learn the hard way — either by hitting rate limits or getting outright blocked by the RBL. Ömer > Am 26.03.2025 um 03:21 schrieb Peter via Postfix-users > <postfix-users@postfix.org>: > > On 26/03/25 05:02, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users wrote: >>> "Reputation lists may have additional policies and restrictions that you >>> need to follow when using them, you should not configure a list in >>> Postfix until you are fully aware of its requirements." >>> >>> ...or something like that. >> Yeah. And as Spamhaus says, it is OK to use a public/open resolver >> a long as your queries use your unique API key. > > Right, at the end of the day this is a due diligence thing where we're simply > saying to follow the policies of the services that you use. The fact that > the vast majority of lists will not, by policy, work with a public resolver > is simply the low hanging fruit here, but there are other policies that can > cause issues as well (e.g. query limits or registration requirements). > >> There are multiple issues that have to be compressed into a short text. >> "Respect the usage policies of reputation services. Avoid public >> or ISP resolvers, unless reputation queries use your unique API >> key." > > This certainly covers all the issues but I fear that it doesn't emphasize the > need to check usage policies before implementing a list. It is acceptable, > imo but I would prefer to see more emphasis on this point. > > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org > To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
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