If one had the capability to do so, would it not be more efficient to use the domain list in an RHSBL? Granted that it uses a net lookup, but if you secondary the zone on a localhost DNS server, I would think that it would make it a lot easier for people to keep the file updated.. Don't get me wrong.. I think the list is great, and we're using it on a few of our SA boxen, but when dealing with over 100 servers (using postfix/amavis/spamassassin), flat files become a pain to manage.

We have an RHSBL that we've been running for about six months (for those people who were using the easynet.nl spamdomains list, we also imported their zone before they went offline), and use it with SA via the following:

header BLACKHOLE_SSAGE eval:check_rbl_from_host('ssage', 'blackhole.securitysage.com')
describe BLACKHOLE_SSAGE Blacklisted as per blackhole.securitysage.com
tflags BLACKHOLE_SSAGE net
score BLACKHOLE_SSAGE 4.5


On servers that see over a million emails per day, running a local secondary was a necessity (as they couldn't handle the remote net lookups), and it keeps us from having to make sure flat (text) files are pushed out regularly..

Thoughts or info from people who have experience doing this sort of thing would be appreciated..

Regards,
Jeff

On 11-Dec-03, at 6:21 PM, Teun Vink wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "John B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Spamassassin just came out with a very large list of rules. These rules are quite good and can be accessed here...
http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/bigevil.cf
(Done by Chris Santerre)


I also read on the SA list that people should but the .cf file in their /var/amavis/.spamassassin folder and NOT the /etc/mail/spamassassin folder.

Is this true? I know that this has been hashed out before but I really thought that it should go in the /etc/mail/spamassassin folder.

I use this list as well, with great results. My site wide rules are placed in /etc/spamassassin, which is the default directory on debian. This works fine.




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