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| | We've been using a variety of the x.spamhaus.org blacklists for quite some time at the advice of Ipswitch Tech Support. Today I got a letter in the mail from them that was a request for payment and as a reference cited the Spamhaus Licensing Policy found online at: http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html I have never heard of this before so I don't know if it is something they recently implemented or if the number of connections my server is opening to query them have increased to put us into the Professional category. I'm looking for thoughts, comments, suggestions as I'm not interested in paying $1500-$1800 a year to continue subscribing to their list. I've gone in after reading some other posts in here and changed my settings to have zen.spamhaus.org applied to Connection Checks and only sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org in the Trusted DNS Blacklist. I previously had sbl. and xbl. and pbl. being queried and I'm wondering if reducing to just the above two will reduce the number of queries. So is anyone else in the same boat? |
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| | | Time Traveler
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| that is redundant... why would you do that?
zen has both xbl and sbl (or however you spell them)... so you basically are overworking the server.
have zen only in the connection checks... have no trusted dns.
then have all the checkboxes unchecked for connection checks.. except insert header "x-imspam connections" or whatever your header is...
then make an inbound rule for the domain..
if "x-imspam" found in subject line... move to folder "SPAM"
zen=xbl+sbl
your basically telling it to do it twice.
anyways you shouldn't have to pay unless you are doing over 300k a day... (we do that much and dont have to pay). if you want to look at who is blocked use a free service....
http://www.dnsbl.info/advanced.asp |
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| | | Junior Member
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| and if you use it commercially.. just read it today.. I had probs with dnsrbls and today I started using zen.spamhouse.org as only dnsrbl- Your use of the Spamhaus DNSBLs is non-commercial*, and
- Your email traffic is less than 80,000 SMTP connections per day, and
- Your DNSBL query volume is less than 320,000 queries per day.
*Definition: "non-commercial use" is use for any purpose other than as part or all of a product or service that is resold, or for use of which a fee is charged. For example, using our DNSBLs in a commercial spam filtering appliance that is then sold to others requires a data feed, regardless of use volume. The same is true of commercial spam filtering software and commercial spam filtering services.
A company that uses our DNSBLs solely to filter their own email qualifies as a non-commercial user and may use our free public DNSBLs if that company's email volume and DNSBL query volume is below the free use limits. The same is true for any non-profit organization, school, religious organization, or private individual who operates their own mail server. |
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| | | Junior Member
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Last Login: 9/24/2008 4:32:15 AM
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| | Hi Guys, I have a little request, if you can give me a screeen shot or a step by step configuration to setup zen.spamhouse.org . The documentation from IMAIL is really not helpful. pls see what they wrote: Query Domain. In the text box, enter the domain to query in the zone file. This name usually matches the server domain name
really very confusing statement. Please help! |
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| Here's how mine's configured now. It works pretty well for our purposes.
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| | | Time Traveler
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| we don't delete ours... but instead insert x-header... (last option).. and then put like
x-imail-connections
THIS IS THE ONLY OPTION WE HAVE CHECKED (careful... the other options might create headaches, test them out first)
we have a rule that if that is found in the subject line, move to spam... incase of false positives.
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