From: Ronneil Camara (no email)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 17:09:27 EST
Hi guys again. Is it not free using rbl sites out there?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Armstrong [mailto:matt+]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:48 AM
> To: Ronneil Camara
> Cc: ''
> Subject: Re: blocking SPAM
>
>
> Ronneil Camara <> writes:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > It's accepting messages now. But there is one thing I
> notice though.
> > I did a tail -f /var/log/maillog. Before the mail actually
> gets delivered,
> > it sits for a while. Maybe, that part is being check
> against the RBL.
> >
> > So, is this the trade-off for this rbl?
>
> rbl usually won't slow things down for more than a second or two --
> usually less than a second.
>
> I notice you list a whole lot in your maps_rbl_domains:
>
> maps_rbl_domains = blackholes.mail-abuse.org,
> dialups.mail-abuse.org, relays.mail-abuse.org, bl.spamcop.net,
> inputs.orbz.org, outputs.orbs.org, relays.ordb.org, or.orbl.org
>
> Trim that down some. As mentioned before, orbs.org is dead.
> mail-abuse.org is no longer freely accessible unless you jump through
> some contractual hoops -- perhaps they aren't answering your queries
> at all. or.orbl.org appears to be dead -- it probably isn't answering
> queries at all.
>
> You should visit the website of each of the blacklists you use and
> check if they're working, what their policies are, etc.
>
> I'm just using:
>
> maps_rbl_domains = relays.ordb.org inputs.orbz.org
>
> This combination works well for me, and is reasonably fast.
>
> --
> matt
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