On 6/11/2010 8:00 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
On 11.06.10 10:42, Andy Dills wrote:
After recently upgrading to a new mail cluster with SA 3.3.1, we were
contacted (at every imaginable POC address) with a solicitation to
purchase access to utilize the Spamhaus blacklists, or they'll stop
answering our queries.
You apparently generate too much of traffic for them.> I think the maintainers
of SA should strongly consider defaulting Spamhaus
to "off". At the very least, it should be better documented how to entire
disable Spamhaus queries.
They have some limits into which most of companies will fit, but you will
not. As any service, they may have their usage policy which some
companies won't fullfill. But that's not reason why it should not be
defaulted to on.
They have the right to charge for their data, but I question whether it's
appropriate for an open-source project to generate sales leads in this
manner.
Just one thought - on our mailservers SA is only run on mail that
makes it past antivirus scanning, greylisting, and a bunch of other
spam checks. The majority of spam or junk is peeled off the incoming
mail stream before SA gets it. I realize this increases CPU processing
of mail but hardware is dirt-cheap these days. Just a thought.
Ted
