Changes to the mailinglist setup

[John Goerzen]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:36:05AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Joerg Jaspert <joerg at debian.org> wrote:
> > [...], reject with some rbl lists[3] [...]
> > [3] [bogusmx|dsn].rfc-ignorant.org, blackhole.securityusage.com,
> >     sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, relays.ordb.org, opm.blitzed.org,
> >     list.dsbl.org, ie. the more sane ones
> 
> More sane perhaps, but still insane.  Listing major European ISP 
> outgoing mail relays still seems a frequent event on at least one of the 
> "Real-time" Blackhole Lists.  At least spamcop isn't being used.  :-/

That doesn't mean they all are that way.

This looks like a very sane setup.  Don't forget that it is far cheaper
resource-wise to drop them during the SMPT conversation rather than with
spamassassin later.

> RBLs should never trigger a reject, but can be good input to a scoring 

I have been using the Spamhaus RBL for *years* and have yet to have had
a false positive with it.

And this on systems that process far more mail than SPI.

I think Joerg has built a very solid setup, and commend him on it.

-- John