Re: All RCVD_IN_VALIDITY rules being applied to every email.

Matija Nalis <[email protected]> writes:

> From https://knowledge.validity.com/s/articles/Accessing-Validity-reputation-data-through-DNS :
>
>>  Starting March 1, 2024, Validity will allow up to 10,000 requests to anonymous users over a 30-day period.
>
> 10k requests per 30-day period is about 333 queries/day. Or less than 14 queries per hour.
> Not very much at all (and certainly at least order of magnitude less than your stated traffic).
> No amount of local DNS caching is going to fix limits *that low*.

That is remarkably low.

A quick check for me shows just over 10K messages processed by SA.  I
didn't However a bunch of them hit shortcircuit rules (e.g. DKIM
welcomelist) and thus I suspect some of those don't query RBLs (but logs
show some do).  So perhaps I am just squeaking by.  And yes, I am
running my own resolver.

This is a personal server.  While I can see that some personal servers
would be under a 10k/30d limit, this is quite different from a 50k or
100k limit and I'd expect many even single-person servers to get
blocked.

Has SA doctrine changed in terms of default ruleset inclusion of RBLs
that block small sites with properly-configured resolvers?   I managed
to miss the new feature of detecting blockage and disabling that RBL,
and I can see that with that feature, having default rules that are
blocked for many reasonable personal use systems is less problematic.