Re: RBL for e-mail addresses POSTFIX

On 2020-09-26, KIKI <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26.09.2020 22:33, William Unruh wrote:
>> You might want to make the Subject have something to do with the
>> content. Why should anyone read this message since the Subject line is so
>> silly.
>
> You are right...
>
>> An global RBL list can be somewhat dangerous since you never have any
> idea of
>> why name/addresses/etc are on the list. Some malicious actor could
>> decide that you belong there and submit/enter your name into the list.
>> FAr better for you to have your own where you know why you entered the
>> location.
>
> My own is not enough. There are plenty of covid scams and spams and our
> local community would solve this problem quickly. There are plenty of
> spammers who use several gmail, yahoo and local free mailboxes to
> snowshoe traffic because they are affraid of being listed quickly.

Sure. And when the hackers get into your RBL list and start to blackball
people you actually want to hear from (whether political party or your
bank) what do you do then? Unfortunately your model of the world (good
guys who make the list of bad people, and bad people who do not know
anything about computers and would never alter your RBL) is not one of
the world we actually live in. 

>
> There is such list in Poland, for emails which spam Polish users. It is
> on https://polspam.pl RBL website.
>
> bl-emails.rbl.polspam.pl
>
> You can try it:
>
> nslookup [email protected]
>
> The problem is that this mechanism is only available for EXIM. If you
> want to read more go to the polspam.pl and select polish language from
> the hamburger menu, next select exim and put it in the google
> translator. No English version yet since it is still experimental as
> they say.