Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 05:36:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.net> To: Javier Henderson <javier@KJSL.COM> Cc: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RBL's and tagging email with sendmail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112100532390.347-100000@veager.jwweeks.com> In-Reply-To: <15380.27640.83264.112194@grumman.kjsl.com>
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Just my .02 here, but SpamBouncer does fine at tagging. http://www.spambouncer.org/ You must have procmail installed. -- Jim Weeks On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Javier Henderson wrote: > Leif Neland writes: > > > > > > > I've had mixed luck with using the various RBL's out there. The rate > > > of false positives can be high sometimes, resulting in too many > > > legitimate messages being bounced. > > > > What do you mean by false positives? > > > > A: Blocking on servers which aren't open relays anymore? educate the > > admins to report to the dnsbl when they have fixed their open relays. > > > > B: Blocking on mail which is not spam, but from servers which are open > > relays? Educate the admins, because they WILL be abused someday, even if > > they haven't yet. Or if this doesn't help, the users will eventually move > > to a responsible ISP, making inresponsible ISP's to go out of business. > > All fine points, but false positives still happen and I'd rather not > miss user's email, so tagging rather than outright rejecting is > preferrable, at least for me. > > If you have any ideas as far as how to implement the tagging, I'd > love to hear them. > > -jav > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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