> > Complaint from a user led me to find this in our logfile: > > > > Sep 21 09:07:07 gaia postfix/smtpd[6392]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > > bay101-f11.bay101.hotmail.com[64.4.56.21]: 554 Service unavailable; > Client > > host [64.4.56.21] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net; Spam Received See: > > http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?64.4.56.21; from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> proto=ESMTP helo=<hotmail.com> > > A customer led me to the same block. Unfortunately they were some very > important emails and the customer was more than a little irate.
eeck. ;) > We removed sorbs. I don't think it's even open for debate at the current > point. > If places like hotmail mx's end up on the blacklist you *will* have upset > customers. Yeah. It would be nice if there were a blacklist out there that took the best of all the others but refused to list things like hotmail for those of us who are in the situation of having users who expect connectivity to Hotmail and their ilk. Yes, it sucks, but this is what it is to have paying customers with friends who use MSN, etc, etc. > > I also don't much care for the idea of using Sorbs only to tally points > in > > SA, since we get so much crap, we'd like to reject most of the obvious > stuff > > out of the gate - otherwise I envision our hard drives filling up twice > as > > fast with crap nobody wants anyway. > Look at other rbl's, consider some or all of: > > abuse.rfc-ignorant.org > dsn.rfc-ignorant.org OK, we use dsn only. I'm curious if their other lists are widely seen to be just as useful? > list.dsbl.org > sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org > opm.blitzed.org We are using all these with the addition of: bl.spamcop.net combined.njabl.org relays.ordb.org cbl.abuseat.org blackhole.securitysage.com (reject_rhsbl_sender in postfix, although I'm not sure how useful this one is nowadays?) blackhole.securitysage.com (reject_rhsbl_client in postfix, although I'm not sure how useful this one is nowadays?) Thanks, Nathanael __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
