Re: RBLs not run when dns_available=yes?

2010-03-12 Thread Jeff_47
d.hill wrote: > > Have you attempted doing a local (on your server) lookup of the IP > address in question? What DNS servers are your server using for > resolution? > It turns out your comment about a DNS problem on my server was spot-on. The first ns was down - apparently if 'dns_availab

Re: RBLs not run when dns_available=yes?

2010-03-12 Thread d . hill
Quoting Jeff_47 : d.hill wrote: Quoting Jeff_47: I have an odd situation - it seems like I must be missing something but I don't know what. In my local.cf, I had the following lines: dns_available yes skip_rbl_checks 0 I noticed that no RBL checks were being run. If I change dns_availa

Re: RBLs not run when dns_available=yes?

2010-03-12 Thread Jeff_47
d.hill wrote: > >>Quoting Jeff_47: > >>> >>> I have an odd situation - it seems like I must be missing something but >>> I >>> don't know what. >>> >>> In my local.cf, I had the following lines: >>> dns_available yes >>> skip_rbl_checks 0 >>> >>> I noticed that no RBL checks were being run. >>

Re: RBLs not run when dns_available=yes?

2010-03-12 Thread d . hill
Quoting Jeff_47 : I have an odd situation - it seems like I must be missing something but I don't know what. In my local.cf, I had the following lines: dns_available yes skip_rbl_checks 0 I noticed that no RBL checks were being run. If I change dns_available to "test" or comment out the line

Re: RBLs and Freemail Forwards

2008-06-29 Thread Matt Kettler
decoder wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Nearly all positive-score RBLs will check all untrusted hosts in Received: headers, except the DUL RBLs and XBL which only check the first untrusted because they are designed to be used in that manner. ie: SBL will be tested against *ALL* untrusted hosts, in

Re: RBLs and Freemail Forwards

2008-06-29 Thread decoder
Matt Kettler wrote: Nearly all positive-score RBLs will check all untrusted hosts in Received: headers, except the DUL RBLs and XBL which only check the first untrusted because they are designed to be used in that manner. ie: SBL will be tested against *ALL* untrusted hosts, including the IP

Re: RBLs and Freemail Forwards

2008-06-29 Thread Matt Kettler
decoder wrote: Hello, on our private mail server we now have quite some forwards from freemail providers like yahoo, gmx and such. This wasn't a big problem previously but there is quite some spam arriving now over those forwards that isn't tagged as such (mainly I think because RBLs can't

Re: RBLs not functioning

2008-05-12 Thread Matt Kettler
Matt Adair wrote: Hoping somebody out there can help. After noticing a dramatic increase in male enhancement spam lately, I started to investigate what was going on and it would appear that none of the default RBLs are getting checked. I've done everything that I can think of and I just can't

Re: RBLs

2007-01-02 Thread Jason Faulkner
In a lot of cases, that seems to boil down to "sending a legitimate email to a recipient who once *asked* to be sent such email, who has now forgotten they signed up in the first place". :( There's not much a sender can do about that - particularly for periodic emails of the type *many* c

Re: RBLs

2007-01-02 Thread John Rudd
Kris Deugau wrote: Jeff Chan wrote: The SpamCop BL is a fair representation of the sending IPs of the messages that its users are reporting as spam. One of your goals as an ESP should be to not get perceived as spam in the mailboxes of those users. If the users get your messages and report the

Re: RBLs

2007-01-02 Thread Kris Deugau
Jeff Chan wrote: The SpamCop BL is a fair representation of the sending IPs of the messages that its users are reporting as spam. One of your goals as an ESP should be to not get perceived as spam in the mailboxes of those users. If the users get your messages and report them as spam (via SpamC

Re: RBLs

2006-12-30 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, December 30, 2006, 10:32:34 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: > SpamCop is not a Feedback Loop in the sense of what AOL and > others offer, but have you both signed up for their reporting > service? > http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/94.html >> How can I get SpamCop reports about my netwo

Re: RBLs

2006-12-30 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, December 30, 2006, 10:40:21 AM, Jason Faulkner wrote: > I will completely concur with the statement about spamcop being too > aggressive -- I work with a company that sends out ~10 million messages > per month per ip (we're an ESP) and we can get listed on Spamcop for as > few as 2

Re: RBLs

2006-12-30 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, December 30, 2006, 8:24:03 PM, Jason Faulkner wrote: > John Rudd wrote: >> Jason Oriente wrote: >>> It is very easy to deal with SpamCop's aggressive approach to >>> blacklisting Email them and explain what you do and supply all of >>> your IP addresses. >>> >>> I manage the operat

Re: RBLs

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Faulkner
John Rudd wrote: Jason Oriente wrote: It is very easy to deal with SpamCop's aggressive approach to blacklisting Email them and explain what you do and supply all of your IP addresses. I manage the operations of the ISP I work for and was dealing with almost daily blacklistings until I emai

Re: RBLs

2006-12-30 Thread John Rudd
Jason Oriente wrote: It is very easy to deal with SpamCop's aggressive approach to blacklisting Email them and explain what you do and supply all of your IP addresses. I manage the operations of the ISP I work for and was dealing with almost daily blacklistings until I emailed them explainin

RE: RBLs

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Oriente
. Jason -Original Message- From: Jason Faulkner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:20 PM To: jdow Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: RBLs >> I will completely concur with the statement about spamcop being too >> aggressive -- I w

Re: RBLs

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Faulkner
I will completely concur with the statement about spamcop being too aggressive -- I work with a company that sends out ~10 million messages per month per ip (we're an ESP) and we can get listed on Spamcop for as few as 20 complaints on one of those IPs, and there's absolutely no feedback mech

Re: RBLs

2006-12-30 Thread jdow
From: "Jason Faulkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> we are using sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, bl.spamcop.net and list.dsbl.org in this particular order. The results are available at: http://graph.noc.ntua.gr/a/graph_529.html Sbl-xbl(zen).spamhaus.org being first in the list and more comp

Re: RBLs

2006-12-30 Thread Jason Faulkner
we are using sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, bl.spamcop.net and list.dsbl.org in this particular order. The results are available at: http://graph.noc.ntua.gr/a/graph_529.html Sbl-xbl(zen).spamhaus.org being first in the list and more complete gets the most hits. Dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net

Re: RBLs

2006-12-30 Thread Panagiotis Christias
On 12/30/06, John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Larry Nedry wrote: > >> On 12/29/06 at 2:50 PM -0500 Vernon Webb wrote: >>> What are you using? >> Currently I am using only zen.spamhaus.org. The rest of the RBLs >> that I have tried have had too man

Re: RBLs (was: sa-learn explained)

2006-12-30 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, December 29, 2006, 1:25:10 PM, Larry Nedry wrote: > On 12/29/06 at 2:50 PM -0500 Vernon Webb wrote: >>What are you using? > Currently I am using only zen.spamhaus.org. The rest of the RBLs that I > have tried have had too many false positives to be useful for my > requirements. > Whic

Re: RBLs

2006-12-29 Thread John Rudd
Sander Holthaus wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Rudd wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Larry Nedry wrote: On 12/29/06 at 2:50 PM -0500 Vernon Webb wrote: What are you using? Currently I am using only zen.spamhaus.org. The rest of the RBLs that I

Re: RBLs

2006-12-29 Thread Sander Holthaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Rudd wrote: > John D. Hardin wrote: >> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Larry Nedry wrote: >> >>> On 12/29/06 at 2:50 PM -0500 Vernon Webb wrote: What are you using? >>> Currently I am using only zen.spamhaus.org. The rest of the >>> RBLs that I have t

Re: RBLs

2006-12-29 Thread John Rudd
John D. Hardin wrote: On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Larry Nedry wrote: On 12/29/06 at 2:50 PM -0500 Vernon Webb wrote: What are you using? Currently I am using only zen.spamhaus.org. The rest of the RBLs that I have tried have had too many false positives to be useful for my requirements. Which RBLs

Re: RBLs (was: sa-learn explained)

2006-12-29 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Larry Nedry wrote: > On 12/29/06 at 2:50 PM -0500 Vernon Webb wrote: > >What are you using? > > Currently I am using only zen.spamhaus.org. The rest of the RBLs > that I have tried have had too many false positives to be useful > for my requirements. > > Which RBLs do the r

Re: RBLs

2006-12-29 Thread Jason Faulkner
Larry Nedry wrote: On 12/29/06 at 2:50 PM -0500 Vernon Webb wrote: What are you using? Currently I am using only zen.spamhaus.org. The rest of the RBLs that I have tried have had too many false positives to be useful for my requirements. Which RBLs do the rest of you folks feel comfortabl

Re: RBLs (was: sa-learn explained)

2006-12-29 Thread Larry Nedry
On 12/29/06 at 2:50 PM -0500 Vernon Webb wrote: >What are you using? Currently I am using only zen.spamhaus.org. The rest of the RBLs that I have tried have had too many false positives to be useful for my requirements. Which RBLs do the rest of you folks feel comfortable using? Nedry

Re: RBLs, URIBLs questions

2004-12-03 Thread Matthew Romanek
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:13:07 -0500, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd go verify that the plugin is actually 3.0.1 versus 3.0.0. The only > (or easiest?) way you can tell is looking at line 169. -- /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/URIDNSBL.pm, line 169 next

Re: RBLs, URIBLs questions

2004-12-03 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:08:01AM -0800, Matthew Romanek wrote: > > > CPAN_FILEF/FE/FELICITY/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0.tar.gz > > > > but you're running 3.0.0...? > > No, that's just what cpan says for the URIDNSBL plug in. That was one > of those confusing bits, but I figured if cpan says

Re: RBLs, URIBLs questions

2004-12-03 Thread Matthew Romanek
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:02:02 -0500, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:51:57AM -0800, Matthew Romanek wrote: > > bodyURIBL_SBL eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_SBL') > > Ok, so that's a 3.0.1 uridnsbl call (3.0.0 was header, 3.0.1+ is body). > > > cpa

Re: RBLs, URIBLs questions

2004-12-03 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:51:57AM -0800, Matthew Romanek wrote: > bodyURIBL_SBL eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_SBL') Ok, so that's a 3.0.1 uridnsbl call (3.0.0 was header, 3.0.1+ is body). > cpan> i Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL > CPAN_FILEF/FE/FELICITY/Mail-SpamAssa

Re: RBLs and Spamassassin for Webmin

2004-11-04 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:30 PM 11/4/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed NET:DNS, but do I need to put an option in local.cf in order for SA to query RBLs ?. No. By default, SA will use RBLS provided that Net::DNS is installed and appears to be working (it tests with a quick DNS lookup of a major domain)