Well, I have a caching dns running, and it performs (almost) flawlessly.
zen.spamhaus.org seems to perform very well here, since when I look at the
mail logs I don' find any false positives. I was using cbl.abuseat.org, bu
it was too loosy on checks, so many .edu.ar servers from here (I live and
work here in Argenina) go blacklisted. The point is that ONLY with
zen.spamhaus.org I get this much rejections at MTA level. As I said, I'm
concerned about if SA geting enough data as it needs to get Bayes working as
it was a month ago.

Regarding sa-update, which channels are you using? I'm currently running on
saupdates.openproect.com. Any suggestions on this subject?


Thanks,


Luis

2007/4/25, Randy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Luis Hernán Otegui wrote:
> Hi, list, I know this is one of those "egg and chicken" kind of
> questions, but having now the possibility of checking the impact of
> various setups, I was wondering if it is more convenient to let the MTA
> perform the RBL checks, or disable them and let SA do this job.
> Currently I am using zen.spamhaus.org <http://zen.spamhaus.org> as my
> primary (and only) RBL tester on Postfix, and I am kinda surprised. The
> daily statistics show that my server is rejecting almost 22000
> connections a day, and accepting only 2500-3000 emails. The major
> drawback is bayes. It seems to lack the necessary amount of data to
> catch up as the spam evolves, so I'm continuously getting new kinds of
> spam (meaning that I can't figure out a tendency to draw a rule from).
> So I'm asking if anyone has a solution for this, or how do you deal with
> this (to me) dellicate balance.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>

I try to block as much as I can before the messages ever hit SA using
RBLs, HELO checks, greylisting, etc. for performance reasons. SA is a
much more expensive check so I try not to run it more than necessary.

I don't rely on Bayes here (my users can turn it on or off as they
choose) but many of the default SA and SARE rulesets pick up changes in
spam fairly quickly so new spam forms get detected soon enough. (/me
hugs sa-update)

If you still want to train on the RBL'd messages, you could configure
your MTA to either feed the messages to sa-learn directly or deliver to
a mailbox for later training.

--
Randy Smith
http://perlstalker.amigo.net/
"Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and
dreams become reality." - Gordon B. Hinckley





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