Must remove dnsbl.ahbl.org from external spamlist

Dennis

Dennis

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Hello,

If anyone has this entry at EDIT#41 AND EDIT#42 please note that you need to delete or comment the dnsbl.ahbl.org AND rhsbl.ahbl.org.

Info on their website:

As promised, on Jan 1st, 2015, i'll be wildcarding all zones no longer in operation - this includes rhsbl.ahbl.org, dnsbl.ahbl.org, and ircbl.ahbl.org. This means that these services will return positive responses for any queries.

The query load is still high enough that I can not justify allocating the resources necessary to support queries from people who refuse to properly maintain their mail servers.

If you are still using these services, this may cause you to incorrectly tag e-mail as spam, or create other unintended consequences. Fix and maintain your servers, now.
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See: http://www.ahbl.org/node

Regards,

Dennis
 
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Found out the hard way on this one. Pretty ugly as it was blocking almost everything. Little panic fun this morning. :eek:
 
Hello zEitEr,

Sorry, did not see that thread, I searched the forum on "ahbl" but it did not show in the results.

Thanks for pointing to it.
 
I am still having things from dnsbl.ahbl.org flagged in a lot of messages. I plan on upgrading all our servers, but we are talking about 30+ of them. For the time being is there a way to shut score for "* 2.4 DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL RBL: Envelope sender listed in dnsbl.ahbl.org" off? Or am I just missing something?

X-Spam-Report:
* 2.4 DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL RBL: Envelope sender listed in dnsbl.ahbl.org
* -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record
* 0.0 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_32 BODY: HTML: images with 2800-3200 bytes of words
* 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
* 1.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
* 0.6 HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG HTML-only message, but there is no HTML tag
* 2.0 MIME_HEADER_CTYPE_ONLY 'Content-Type' found without required MIME
* headers

Here is what I have in my exim.conf

#EDIT#41:
deny message = Email blocked by $dnslist_domain
hosts = !+relay_hosts
domains = +use_rbl_domains
domains = !+skip_rbl_domains
!authenticated = *
dnslists = \
cbl.abuseat.org : \
bl.spamcop.net : \
# combined.rbl.msrbl.net : \
b.barracudacentral.org : \
zen.spamhaus.org
# hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com=127.0.0.2

#EDIT#42:
#deny message = Email blocked by $dnslist_domain
# hosts = !+relay_hosts
# domains = +use_rbl_domains
# domains = !+skip_rbl_domains
# !authenticated = *
# dnslists = \
# rhsbl.ahbl.org/$sender_address_domain
 
northtones said:
Here is what I have in my exim.conf
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You may be confusing SpamAssassin with SpamBlocking via SpamBlocker exim.conf file.

Since your Edit#41 location doesn't have the ahbl line in it, and your Edit#42 is commented out, your exim.conf file is good.

Where is your X-Spam report coming from? From Spam-Assassin? If so, then you should update SpamAssassin.

Jeff
 
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