On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:48:32AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: > I've been doing some more digging since my last post, and have figured out > that the spam is not being blocked by pf, as I suspected (since it wasn't > showing up in my spam folder), but by spamassassin blacklists. > > The smtp log file has lots of entries like: > > 2008-01-14 09:30:37.074087500 rblsmtpd: 123.20.89.67 pid 72121: 451 > http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=123.20.89.67 > 2008-01-14 09:31:05.271514500 rblsmtpd: 58.227.241.97 pid 72122: 451 > Dynamic IP Addresses See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?58.227.241.97 > 2008-01-14 09:31:17.404943500 rblsmtpd: 41.196.155.56 pid 72123: 451 > http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=41.196.155.56 > 2008-01-14 09:31:18.304682500 rblsmtpd: 123.20.89.67 pid 72124: 451 > http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=123.20.89.67 > > So raises the same point that Oliver makes: how trustworthy are these > blacklists?
YMMV, of course! I'm using spamhaus.org's blacklists for quite some time (many years) to block spam in postfix and they've been VERY trustworthy so far. But I can't say the same for the others, which seem occasionally a little bit too eager/aggressive and accumulate way too many false positives. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
