On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 00:51 -0600, LuKreme wrote: > On 16-Aug-2009, at 16:55, MySQL Student wrote: > >> So perhaps instead of adding another RBL, maybe some admins need to > >> consider adding in some HELO checking / rejection. > > Can you explain a bit more here? What are you checking for, that the > > host is valid? > > <http://www.mail-archive.com/postfix-us...@postfix.org/msg15167.html> > > That gives me a 46% rejection rate just on HELO/EHLO and a 47% > rejection rate on unknown users. > I have to agree with LuKreme, my overnight had 446 blocked prior to RBL, and only 387 by RBL. Again, noted that 'Barracuda' missed 43, 35 of these Spamhaus caught - so for me Spamhaus is still better than Barracuda. Also, I was sat in on a phone conference at Barracuda last year where the motives were made clear; "Long term we intend to charge for it" (OWTTE).
************************ Mon Aug 17 03:59:01 2009 ************************ TOTAL 925 ALLOWED 84 BLOCKED 833 ************************ BLOCKED MESSAGE SUMMARY ************************ PRE DNSBL 446 ........................ NO PTR 283 SPOOFING 163 RELAY ATTEMPTS 0 BLOCKED OTHER 0 WHITELISTED 8 ************************ BLOCKED DNSBL 387 ........................ BBL BARRACUDA 344 ZEN SPAMHAUS 35 UCE PROTECT 1 0 UCE PROTECT 2 0 UCE PROTECT 3 5 [UCE PT TOTAL 5] SORBS SPAM 0 SORBS EXPLOIT 0 UCE SPAMCOP 0 UCE SPAMCANIBAL 1 UCE NOMOREFUN 0 INTERNAL LIST 2