Re: rbl's status?
Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2004-05@lina.inka.de> writes:
> In article <[🔎] 871xki7ttk.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> you wrote:
>> This sort of thing is why I would rather use any RBL within
>> SpamAssassin, rather than at SMTP delivery time. Even if one of these
>> services goes completely belly up and blacklists the world, I don't
>> automatically lose mail from it.
>
> Please dont do this. You MUST reject mails (by spam scanners, malware
> scanners or blacklists) on the SMTP level, otherwise you become a pretty big
> annoyance to the internet (if you bounce) or will siletnly lose mails (if
> you drop them).
Well, yes, choosing one of the broken options is broken. Just giving
a message 5 spamassassin points for tripping a blacklist seems pretty
reasonable, though.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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