From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Dec 10 2:36:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E03C37B405 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:36:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from veager.jwweeks.com ([65.14.122.116]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011210103610.BHOX1739.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@veager.jwweeks.com>; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:36:10 -0800 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 05:36:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Weeks X-Sender: jim@veager.jwweeks.com To: Javier Henderson Cc: Leif Neland , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RBL's and tagging email with sendmail In-Reply-To: <15380.27640.83264.112194@grumman.kjsl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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