I would not blanket whitelist providers by the rDNS names -- those names are 
too easy to fake.  I can set the rDNS on my servers to anything I want; that's 
why SPF and DKIM were created.

-- Sam Clippinger




On Aug 13, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Gary Gendel wrote:

> Sam,
> 
> This sounds like a good idea.  Unfortunately I have limited bandwidth to 
> offer an RHSBL service on my domain.
> 
> I currently have the big providers whitelisted from their RDNS but still 
> run all emails through spamassassin.  Is this a bad idea and should I 
> have these configured differently?  If not, should hunter_seeker used 
> rdns whitelist instead of using the unblacklistable file?
> 
> Gary
> 
> On 08/13/2013 11:02 AM, Sam Clippinger wrote:
>> I don't update mine very often at all; I think I've only added a couple 
>> within the last year.  (Some of the original scripts I wrote in 2007 still 
>> catch sites today -- I guess spammers just don't update their websites.)  I 
>> could post my current filters somewhere if you'd like to see them, but I 
>> agree it would be neat to create some sort of centralized repository.  I 
>> suppose the cleverest thing would be for someone to host an RHSBL based on 
>> results from the script.  I have about 100K blacklisted domains I could 
>> contribute...
>> 
>> My unblacklistable domains list is pretty basic as well, mostly big 
>> providers (AOL, GMail, Hotmail, etc) plus a few (about a dozen) I've added 
>> when people have been blocked accidentally.
>> 
>> -- Sam Clippinger
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 13, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Gary Gendel wrote:
>> 
>>> Sam,
>>> 
>>> I just started playing with your hunter-seeker script.  Is there a
>>> repository where the latest hunter-seeker filters can be downloaded?  I
>>> don't know how often you and others update them, but new filters would
>>> be a nice thing to share. Also, any unblacklistable domains that have
>>> been collected would be nice to share.
>>> 
>>> Gary
>>> 
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