If you use spamassassin
If you're using spamassassin and have rbl checking turned on, it's pretty important to either turn it off or hack your spamassassin install to not use osirusoft anymore. Due to some wonderful DOS attacks the service has become totally unreliable (more offline than on) and when it does return results they're unpredictable. It flagged several of my e-mail as coming from open relays.. ones I knew for a fact were not... So you could be dropping email and not even know it.
To turn off rbl checks in spamasassin:
skip_rbl_checks 1
In your config file..
To just turn off osirusoft, you can be an idiot like I and hack the .cf files.. or just use the simple directions over here (thanks Steve).
Comments
more on osirusoft. they haven't gone unreliable. They're gone.
Posted by: chuqui | August 28, 2003 09:34 PM
oops.
http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/000719.html
Posted by: chuqui | August 28, 2003 09:34 PM
I was seeing positive matches an hour ago :(
Posted by: kasia | August 28, 2003 09:36 PM
Or just set the scores for these rules to 0
RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM, X_OSIRU_DUL, X_OSIRU_DUL_FH, X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY, X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE, X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC
See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for how you do it.
Posted by: Chris | August 29, 2003 07:30 AM
Tweaking the spamassassin.rc file (where ever you have it located) is alot easier than actually messing with the PERL code... You should be able to set custom test scores of zerp from within it.
Posted by: Jeremy aka bad-magic-number | August 29, 2003 06:40 PM
Thanks! I was wondering why SA was running so long!!!!
Posted by: Frank Merenda | September 16, 2003 08:01 PM
Monkeys.com just bit the dust.
http://blog.iloaf.com/archives/000145.html
If you use SA 2.6 then it's time to change things again.
Posted by: Chris | September 24, 2003 09:19 AM