[Mimedefang] SpamAssassin and using a local SpamHaus zone DNS server

[-ray]

Jan already mentioned how to setup your local zone in named.conf.  We are 
doing that for the spamhaus and surbl zones that we mirror.  Just wanted 
to say that we use spamhaus as a dnsbl in sendmail to outright block IPs 
on the Spamhaus SBL/XBL list.  In over 2 years and a few 100k messages a 
day, I think we've had 2 complaints.  And Spamhaus is the ONLY list i 
trust as a sendmail dnsbl.  Others may have a different experience, but 
we've had very good experience from Spamhaus.  When they wanted to start 
charging for the service, my boss simply said "How much? Pay them."

ray
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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Jim McCullars wrote:

> Does anyone here run SpamAssassin and also subscribe to the SpamHaus data
> service, where you download the lists and query a local DNS?  I recently
> signed up for the 30-day free trial and sendmail is doing the query as it
> should, but the default net tests in SA are still querying the
> spamhaus.org public servers.  Did you change SA to query the local DNS for
> the SBL/XBL/PBL tests?  If so, how did you make the change?  Thanks...
>
> Jim McCullars
> University of Alabama in Huntsville