* Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-30-07 15:27]:
> Interesting - but with RBLs you sometimes have innocent senders tarred
> with the same brush as the spammers, so if it's problematic to ban based
> on the RBLs. 

rbl blocked >1000 posts the 28th and >600 yesterday.  I correspond
with several people who have isp's listed and just add them to
/etc/postfix/access and they have no problem with refusals  :^)

> Count on it, some law office in Brazil will send an urgent and
> business critical message, and be banned due to an unfortunate choice
> of ISP. Managers will be angry. In a number of environments we've
> removed RBLs as a front line sanity check because, like SPF, they
> sometimes block important and legitimate messages. In other words,
> we're decided to use SPF and RBLs as factors in spamassassin scoring,
> rather than a binary decision at the perimeter. The other sanity
> checks are already enough to block more than half the attempted
> messages from even getting to the spamassassin servers.
> 
> For home use fail2ban is probably fine though - aunt myrtle won't
> complain if her message is delayed.

guess you just need to use the abilities of postfix  :^)

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