Re: How to solve being blacklisted

[Brian Ventura <bventura @ austin . sns . slb . com>]

Unfortunately, even using SpamAssassin causes problems when a blacklist
site like osirusoft starts blocking everything since spamassassin will
give a higher rating to the mail and thus determine it to be spam.
 What spamassassin then does with the mail is up to configuration, but
you still have the initial problem of "when osirusoft decides to block
all addresses, my filter says all mail is SPAM".


Rainer Sokoll wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:19:11AM -0500, Brian Ventura wrote:
>
> > If you really get blacklisted, there is probably a reason.
> >   
>
> This leads me to a (slightly off topic) point:
> The case of osirusoft shows that using external blacklists for rejecting
> mails can lead to a situation where you don't receive /any/ mail.
> By having a safe (non-relaying) mailsystem and by using intelligent anti
> spam software like SpamAssassin, there is IMHO no need for the use of
> external maintained blacklists. (SpamAssassin does, but the way it does
> is different).
>
> Rainer