Hi Admins,
who uses RBLs in Domino?
How does it work?
Please answer!
All the best
Stefan
Subject: Some sources of information
Preventing Spam Mail In Notes/Domino 6 (04/01/2003)
Notes/Domino 6 includes several important features that help prevent spam mail from entering your organization and reaching users. This article looks at general techniques for avoiding spam, and examines Notes/Domino 6 anti-spam features in detail.
Lotus Domino 6 spam Survival Guide
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246930.pdf
Tutorial: Managing your inbound spam mail in a Lotus Domino 6 environment
Spam or junk mail is the bane of every e-mail user’s existence. It is a constant battle to keep junk mail out of your inbox, and to keep your e-mail system a productive tool. Domino 6 has new features to arm you in the battle against spam. This tutorial is for Domino/Notes administrators who want better control over spam or junk mail. It covers using the new features of Domino 6 to block and manage spam, as well as some existing features.
Webcast: Spam Prevention in Domino 7 (Jul. 27, 2004)
The spam chain is killing e-mail as a useful form of interaction. You need to know everything from avoiding being a spam relay to blocking incoming spam reliably and effectively. Chris Miller, Connectria’s Director of Messaging and Collaboration, will get you up to speed on anti-relay abilities in Domino 7, blacklists, whitelists, rules and filters, DNS reverse lookups, and add-on products to help reduce spam. Chris will also look at some of the initiatives by vendors, such as certificate authentication for sending, to prevent spam and address whether Domino supports these initiatives or not. Sponsored by Angel Infinity’s GateKeeper for Notes.
Webcast: Control mail and fight spam with Notes/Domino 6 - Expert Webcast (24 MAR 2004)
See what techniques spammers use to fool servers and learn 10 things you can do right now to reduce your spam. And, learn how to use quotas and archiving to control mail database sizes.
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6.0/6.5 help KEMET shun spam (16 December 2003)
Beyond filtering – The next innovations in spam prevention (29 March 2004)
Eventually most spam recipients ask the same question: “Do enough people buy this stuff to make spam worth sending?” The answer is yes — because hardly any buyers is still enough. “What makes spamming economically worthwhile is that e-mail is so inexpensive to send. If the spammer gets one person out of ten thousand to buy, the spammer is making money,” says Nathaniel Borenstein, IBM Lotus Distinguished Scientist and the leader of Lotus’ spam prevention research. … read more
SearchDomino’s Administrators Guide To Understand SPAM (20 Nov 2003)
This is a great overview if you are new to the concepts of unsolicated email. It provides and overview, some market statisitics, effects on the industry, etc.
Fighting SPAM in Lotus Domino
http://www.dominozone.net/members/domzone/Dzone.nsf/0/4FC49C56A604FB09C1256B81002B89CF?opendocument
Hacking Domino mail rules to fight spam
http://www.dominopower.com/issuesprint/issue200312/00001158.html
Chris’s site is a bible for everything SPAM (see the links on the left side of his site)
http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/plinks/CWLT-5QTDFW
Subject: Realtime Black Lists
If you have about DNS black list:go to server configuration document → router/SMTP → restriction and controls → Smtp inbound controls → section “DNS Blacklist Filter”
1- DnsBlacklist → Enabled
2- DNS Blacklist sites → I use next free sites "list.dsbl.org;
sbl.spamhaus.org
spamdomains.blackholes.easynet.nl
dynablock.easynet.nl
proxies.blackholes.easynet.nl"
3- Desired action when a connecting host is found in a DNS Blacklist: → Log and reject message
Subject: RE: Realtime Black Lists
Don’t use the easynet.nl DNSBL zones. They no longer exist so you are creating DNS activity for nothing.
See my latest stats for which are the most effective DNSBLs: