Non blocking RBL with exim

[Robert Brockway]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Kihara Muriithi wrote:

> Peter, I do get you, and there is a lot of political debate I have
> come across on the net on this topic. rbl have sometime abused their
> power, but they also have some information worth using when evaluating

IMHO it comes down to being careful about the RBLs you choose.  I am 
currently using zen.spamhaus.org & list.dsbl.org and I haven't had a 
(known) problem with either one.

> I am actually running greylisting in fact. However I think greylisting
> cater for a different purpose. May of less fight against ratware which

Greylisting can actually be useful in conjunction with RBLs.  If you temp 
fail the mail there is a decent chance the spammer will have been added to 
an RBL before they try you again (in general spammers do not queue their 
mail but run exactly the spam again later to try to defeat greylisting).

Cheers,

Rob

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