With various threads talking, and questioning, about blacklists I have started to try and understand these a bit more.
My own setup uses those lists given below, though these run from my firewall mail proxy rather than from any of the mail handling applications. >From this weeks mail log I have counted the rejects from each of the lists (the mail traffic this week has been around 4000 mails). 22 relays.ordb.org 568 list.dsbl.org 322 sbl.spamhaus.org 0 blackhole.securitysage.com This clearly shows that blackhole.securitysage.com is not contributing at all and that relays.ordb.org is contributing a lot less than I had thought. What this does not make clear is if my firewall is rejecting mail against the first response, possible looking at the logs (though I'll fire a question at the manufacturers to check), or if the list servers are just very slow or not responding. What is also not clear, to me anyway, is what would be better alternatives as the list servers are clearly for different functions, e.g. open relays as opposed to mail abuse. I've searched for some sort of listing of list server type against list servers of that type but not found anything coherent. Various posters have stated what they use and ask what others are using and their experience of those list servers.... Is anyone collating this information? If so who? If not, should we? Regards Alan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
