Le 05/01/2011 02:15, Karsten Bräckelmann a écrit :
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 00:58 +0100, mouss wrote:
>> Le 03/01/2011 13:28, Jari Fredriksson a écrit :
>>>
>>> I want to secure a postfix site with rbls, no spamassassin at this
>>> moment. (I use SpamAssassin on other sites, and no RBLs at SMTP time, so
>>> I'm not very experienced with this. SA has may RBL's, sure, but what to
>>> use to kill them when seen?)
> 
>> if you use that and if you are not "unlucky", then you don't need other
>> DNSBLs:
>>
>> Recipient unknown................: 5318 ( 73.85 %)
>> DNSBL zen.spamhaus.org...........:  816 ( 11.33 %)
> 
> This alone tells some facts about these stats. For one, they are
> gathered from all SMTP delivery attempts. Usually, on this list, stats
> for BL performance are relative to mail that otherwise would have been
> accepted without SA. Which in every case but the most pathetic does not
> include unknown recipient rejections at all.

My understanding was that OP asked about smtp time rejections.
obviously, this won't check received headers, nor junk from yahoo/gmail/...

> 
> 
>> as you can see, all DNSBLs but spamhaus are more or less useless.
> 
> While ZEN in stats indeed tends to have the best hitrate and a
> negligible FP rate, that sentence is incorrect as written.

sorry if I wasn't clear: I mean at smtp time.

> It definitely
> depends on the order -- and whether or not you are able to use ZEN
> (below the free usage limit or a paying rsync client).

true.

> 
> BLs low in your order most likely will perform better, if used before
> ZEN, and ZEN will perform worse if used after other BLs.
> 
> 

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