[sclug] RBL recommendations

[Martin Summers]

Hello there !

I can confirm that we (as a company) have experienced problems when sending e-mails to destinations that are protected by spamhaus. It was something silly - the e-mail sender IP was not of the same domain name as the e-amil domain name, and this was due to a period of transition on our part. However, it was very difficult to get off of the blacklist once we were listed, even long after the problem was rectified.

 Regards,

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On Behalf Of David Given
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:43 AM
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: [sclug] RBL recommendations

My shiny new SMTP greylister proxy (<plug> http://spey.sf.net </plug>) now supports RBLs. I'm currently running it with spamhaus' Zen RBL, which is working really, really well --- in 36 hours it's blackholed 890 incoming connections.

In fact, it's working so well I'm slightly nervous that it's refusing access to legitimate mail servers. Zen is a combination of SBL (spammers), XBL (open
proxies) and PBL (dynamic IP addresses who shouldn't be sending mail anyway).
Is this too aggressive? What's spamhaus' reputation for zealotry? What RBLs are people using in commercial environments?

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