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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:40:29 -0700
From:      "Janky Jay, III" <jankyj@unfs.us>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mail/postfix: making postscreen blacklistd aware, interested?
Message-ID:  <99d9aa0a-69b8-4df3-bf5c-848d28e04596@unfs.us>
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Absolutely interested!

Regards,
Janky Jay, III

On 1/29/25 12:49PM, Michael Grimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running DNSBLs out of postscreen:
> 	postscreen_dnsbl_sites = <secret>.zen.dq.spamhaus.net=127.0.0.[2..11] <secret>.combined.mail.abusix.zone
>
> Until recently those detected bots tried it a couple of times and gave up. Now, there are a significant number of bots trying every couple of minutes over days :-(
>
> Normally I wouldn't care, but as I am using Spamhaus and Abusix low traffic plans I pretty much scratched the daily limit of 5000 queries.
>
> Thus I patched postscreen to tell blacklistd to block those bots as defined in /etc/blacklistd.conf.
>
> This works fine at my sites.
>
> But before bothering the maintainer with a PR of my private interest I want to ask here:
>
> Anyone else interested?
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>




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