Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-17 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Michael Peddemors via mailop said: >Just make it simple, set your DNS servers to be your upstream provider.. >You pay them money, use their services if you don't want to run your own >DNS server.. If you're doing DNSBL lookups and your upstream provider is a giant like Comcast or

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-17 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Al Iverson via mailop said: >> On an debian/ubuntu system just >> >> apt install unbound >> >> It comes configured fairly safely, listening only on localhost. >> >> and edit /etc/resolv.conf to say >> >> nameserver 127.0.0.1 >> >> And there isn't much else to it for single machine.

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-17 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 1:24 AM John Brahy via mailop wrote: > > Spam Haus is one of the worst. They’ll blacklist a company’s Corporate emails > if they think they send advertising emails even if they never use their > corporate domain to send email. Really dirty. Son, you might be in the wrong

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-16 Thread Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via mailop
Tim Bray via mailop writes: > apt install unbound > > It comes configured fairly safely, listening only on localhost. > > and edit /etc/resolv.conf to say > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > And there isn't much else to it for single machine.  Indeed it is > quite a good way to bring DNSSEC up to the lo

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-16 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 5:29 PM Tim Bray via mailop wrote: > > On 16/07/2021 17:58, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: > > If you want to guide this dummy on how to run a local resolver like > > that, I'd appreciate the tips.:) I was trying to get out of the DNS > > business but if I want to do any loc

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-16 Thread Tim Bray via mailop
On 16/07/2021 17:58, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: If you want to guide this dummy on how to run a local resolver like that, I'd appreciate the tips.:) I was trying to get out of the DNS business but if I want to do any local DNSBL querying, I guess I have to reconsider that. On an debian/ubunt

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-16 Thread Mark Milhollan via mailop
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Bastian Blank wrote: Did you check the result of those RBL requests? Spamhaus also provides specific codes for errors, so you _must_ explicitely list what codes you want to accept. See https://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/DNSBL%20Usage#200 what those mean. I've been cons

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-16 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Just make it simple, set your DNS servers to be your upstream provider.. You pay them money, use their services if you don't want to run your own DNS server.. PS, don't even THINK of using DoH ;) BTW, everyone keeps talking about 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, but consider that.. 'https://download.dnsc

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-16 Thread Mark Milhollan via mailop
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, Al Iverson wrote: is it bad vibes to query Spamhaus directly against a.gns.spamhaus.org - e.gns.spamhaus.org? Those are the servers that would normally be queried, in that they are the listed NS for the DBL, PBL, SBL, XBL, SBL-XBL and ZEN zones. /mark _

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-16 Thread Brielle via mailop
On 7/16/21 10:58 AM, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: Each resolver node is set up of multiple pools that consist of resolvers I run, my provider, and 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1. If you want to guide this dummy on how to run a local resolver like that, I'd appreciate the tips. :) I was trying to get out of t

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-16 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 3:52 PM Brielle via mailop wrote: > > On 7/15/21 12:26 PM, John Levine via mailop wrote: > > It appears that Tim Bray via mailop said: > >> Just check which DNS servers you are using. And lot of the 8.8.8.8 > >> and 9.9.9.9 of the world and similar don't work very well

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-15 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2021-07-15 at 09:06:14 UTC-0400 (Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:06:14 +0100) Tim Bray via mailop is rumored to have said: Just check which DNS servers you are using. And lot of the 8.8.8.8 and 9.9.9.9 of the world and similar don't work very well for RBLs I usually install a local unbound. Sorr

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-15 Thread Brielle via mailop
On 7/15/21 12:26 PM, John Levine via mailop wrote: It appears that Tim Bray via mailop said: Just check which DNS servers you are using. And lot of the 8.8.8.8 and 9.9.9.9 of the world and similar don't work very well for RBLs s/very well/at all/ I usually install a local unbound. You

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-15 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Tim Bray via mailop said: >Just check which DNS servers you are using. And lot of the 8.8.8.8 >and 9.9.9.9 of the world and similar don't work very well for RBLs s/very well/at all/ >I usually install a local unbound. You have to unless the ISP DNS resolver is small enough

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-15 Thread Bastian Blank via mailop
Hi On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 04:29:24AM -0700, Mark Milhollan via mailop wrote: > Spamhaus has been working fine for me and has been a wonderful resource for > many years, but I recently decided I had to disable using them on my > personal, low volume mail server because of a few recent surprises (t

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-15 Thread Tim Bray via mailop
On 15/07/2021 12:29, Mark Milhollan via mailop wrote: Spamhaus has been working fine for me and has been a wonderful resource for many years, but I recently decided I had to disable using them on my personal, low volume mail server because of a few recent surprises (that's right, I don't look a

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-15 Thread Matthew Stith via mailop
Mark, Replying off list to see if we can figure out what is going on. On 7/15/2021 7:29 AM, Mark Milhollan via mailop wrote: > Spamhaus has been working fine for me and has been a wonderful > resource for many years, but I recently decided I had to disable using > them on my personal, low volume

[mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-15 Thread Mark Milhollan via mailop
Spamhaus has been working fine for me and has been a wonderful resource for many years, but I recently decided I had to disable using them on my personal, low volume mail server because of a few recent surprises (that's right, I don't look at Spamhaus rejects, timestamps are UTC): Jul 10 22: