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Date:      Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:09:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Peter Pluta <peter@placidpublishing.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spamassassin RBL's
Message-ID:  <11050907.post@talk.nabble.com>
In-Reply-To: <466C2D0F.3040708@webanoide.org>
References:  <11046174.post@talk.nabble.com> <466C2D0F.3040708@webanoide.org>

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Mikhail Goriachev-2 wrote:
> 
> Peter Pluta wrote:
>> How can I enable spamassasssin RBL's. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1, postfix,
>> amavisd-new, and spamassassin with razor. I'm getting many spams that
>> shouldn't be getting thru with RBL's. I havent been able to find anything
>> useful on Google that can explain how to get RBL working with
>> spamassassin.
>> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> 
> RBL is already enabled in SA. Probably you should increase the values SA 
> assigns to RBL checks. See:
> 
> http://www.spamhaus.org/effective_filtering.html
> 
> Skim through:
> 
> /usr/local/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf
> 
> 
> Just a thought. You may consider implementing RBL at MTA level (postfix 
> in your case). It is a lot faster then processing through SA, which is a 
> resource hog.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Mikhail.
> 
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Thanks, I think postfix already does the basic RBl's. PTR records and stuff
like that, but i'm still getting some ugly spam. When I feed the spam ip's
into dnsstuff.com's spam database many of the databases show it as
blacklisted, so i'm guessing the RBL's are not functioning correctly. 
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