Re: URIBL plugin 'action' defaults

[email protected] (Robert Spier)
Newsgroups perl.qpsmtpd
Message-ID <[email protected]>

And by that, I mean..

I'm not sure I *object*, because there *are* blacklists we
trust... but in general, I think we try and avoid doing things that
could cause people to lose mail unintentionally.  So I think I lean
slightly towards the "consistent defaults of header tagging" side.

-R

Robert Spier wrote:
> 
> 
> How about instead of hardcoding this, make deny be the default in the
> sample config?
> 
> -R
> 
> Jared Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > Would anyone object to setting the default action to 'deny' on certain
> > reliable low-fp URIBL lists?  Probably Spamhaus SBL-XBL and DBL and URIBL
> > Black.  It seems like a new user turning on uribl checks would expect them
> > to do something more than adding headers, as long as the services it
> > rejects for are reliable.  But this also means that anyone who was already
> > using the plugin without setting any actions would see a change in
> > behavior on upgrade.
> > 
> > -Jared
> >
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