Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-10 Thread Erik Espinoza
Hey Jamie, Feel free to wikify anything from my page, http://devel.qmailtoaster.com/faq.html I will be more than happy to point to the wiki page. Thanks, Erik On 8/10/06, Eric Shubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jamie Thom wrote: > No problem, happy to help! > > I've been trying to get a decent

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-10 Thread Eric \"Shubes\"
Jamie Thom wrote: No problem, happy to help! I've been trying to get a decent home mail server sorted out for a while as the mailbox at my ISP was getting around 5Mb (!) of Spam a day so if I didn't get a chance to check my mail for two days it would be full and start bouncing stuff. Hence Qmail

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-10 Thread Jamie Thom
No problem, happy to help! I've been trying to get a decent home mail server sorted out for a while as the mailbox at my ISP was getting around 5Mb (!) of Spam a day so if I didn't get a chance to check my mail for two days it would be full and start bouncing stuff. Hence Qmailtoaster set up and

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-10 Thread Eric \"Shubes\"
Steve Huff wrote: on the other hand, if your system is not tight on resources, i would recommend not doing this. why? because in my experience so far, rblsmtpd is only effective on messages that are relayed from a blacklisted host directly to you. even after i added more servers to /var/q

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-10 Thread Eric \"Shubes\"
Jamie Thom wrote: Hi, I'm also happy the revised version of the SURBL instructions on the wiki work so I've edited it again to remove my old version. If you're using a bunch of rbls in your blacklists file I suspect you'll want to edit 25_uribl.cf and comment out #uridnsbl URIBL_SBL

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-10 Thread Eric \"Shubes\"
Erik Espinoza wrote: As this list is very nice, is there a reason not to include it in the default toaster? Some of those lists put false positives, prone to false positives. The SBL is a very conservative list. Once upon a time, we included bl.spamcop.net until they blocked hotmail and various

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-10 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 10, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Jamie Thom wrote: I'm also happy the revised version of the SURBL instructions on the wiki work so I've edited it again to remove my old version. If you're using a bunch of rbls in your blacklists file I suspect you'll want to edit 25_uribl.cf and comment out #uri

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-10 Thread Jamie Thom
Hi, I'm also happy the revised version of the SURBL instructions on the wiki work so I've edited it again to remove my old version. If you're using a bunch of rbls in your blacklists file I suspect you'll want to edit 25_uribl.cf and comment out #uridnsbl URIBL_SBL sbl.spamhaus.org.

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-10 Thread Erik Espinoza
As this list is very nice, is there a reason not to include it in the default toaster? Some of those lists put false positives, prone to false positives. The SBL is a very conservative list. Once upon a time, we included bl.spamcop.net until they blocked hotmail and various other big providers.

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-09 Thread Eric \"Shubes\"
Erik Espinoza wrote: This was never a hard requirement, so much as a recommendation. This is because we have a lot of checks happening now that require fast DNS response, not one single thing. Here are the things (off the top of my head) that require DNS: 1) SPF Checks (can be multiple lookups

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-09 Thread Erik Espinoza
>> The crux of the matter here seems to be that SA is configured in the >> toaster to: >> .) only do local tests >> .) rbl_checking is turn off. >> >> This appears to be intentional, as the default SA distribution has >> rbl_checking turned on (skip_rbl_checks 0). I figure there must be a >> good

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-09 Thread Eric \"Shubes\"
Jake Vickers wrote: Eric "Shubes" wrote: I've just finished touching up the SURBL wiki page. I think there's a larger issue that we should address. The crux of the matter here seems to be that SA is configured in the toaster to: .) only do local tests .) rbl_checking is turn off. This appea

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-09 Thread Jake Vickers
Eric "Shubes" wrote: I've just finished touching up the SURBL wiki page. I think there's a larger issue that we should address. The crux of the matter here seems to be that SA is configured in the toaster to: .) only do local tests .) rbl_checking is turn off. This appears to be intentional,

[qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin and SURBL

2006-08-09 Thread Eric \"Shubes\"
I've just finished touching up the SURBL wiki page. I think there's a larger issue that we should address. The crux of the matter here seems to be that SA is configured in the toaster to: .) only do local tests .) rbl_checking is turn off. This appears to be intentional, as the default SA distr