How to correctly use the Blocklist options offered by Spamhaus?
I assume you mean within postfix please elaborate.
I posted this a while ago.
We don’t build or maintain Spamhaus, so I’d recommend you check their documentation for using it from SpamAssassin, which is where spam filtering decisions are made in a Virtualmin system.
Some people choose to use RBLs directly in Postfix, but that’s a mistake, as it is a hard block, and thus prone to false positives.
Yep… that’s what I did (RBLs directly in Postfix) because those SpamHaus-with-Assassin docs are SO confusing…
And in another link Joe says “We don’t enable any by default, as they are potentially problematic, often require some sort of account to be able to access them, may have licensing issues (e.g. spamhaus is not free for commercial use).”
So… I put the RBLs into Postfix.
For those that host at home, I put block lists into my pfSense, the packets never get to my email server.
can you post the URL to this page for me please.
or you could enable postscreen which does a reasonable job & has some configuration options
The consensus is that postfix should be used for delivering email not spam handling, that should be handled by external software (eg spamassassain).
I am not use if postfix were on about removing blocklist lookups..