[TriLUG] SpamAssassin + ??? + Postfix == PROFIT!!

[Lance A. Brown]

On 2015-01-12 1:22 pm, matt at noway2.thruhere.net wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but on the subject of Spam Assassin, I thought I 
> would
> share something that I ran into recently in case anyone else has been
> impacted by this.
> 
> Apparently the site that ran DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL which is / was used by
> SA, went belly up on 1/1/15 and for whatever (in my not so humble 
> opinion)
> ignorant reason they decided to set the RBL system to report positive 
> to
> all queries thereby increasing the likelihood that mail gets flagged as
> SPAM.  Given that they said that this was done to annoy people who 
> don't
> maintain their email systems, strikes me as malicious.

I dunno.  AHBL owner announced last APRIL that he was going to be 
turning down the site and changing the settings as announced.  Seems 
like plenty long for people to adjust to the on-coming changes.

I agree that the changes he made, to blacklist everything, is pretty 
harsh.

--[Lance]