Hello All,
Excuse the long message but I wanted to be clear, if you want, skip to the bottom, and see my question first.
Recently I discovered that ORBS.ORG shut down. I found out the hard way when their server, or the mirrors, began returning 127.0.0.2 for everything. This of course told Raptor that this sender was an open relay and it bounced the message back to the sender.
I removed smtp.rbl.relays.orbs.org from my inbound SMTP rule. I found the line in the properties of the rule under the "advanced services" tab. In addition, my smtpd proxy server has nothing set because I only want the inbound traffic scanned for spam.
Well with these sites out of commission, orbs.org and maps.vix.com, I had to learn a few things on how this aspect of Raptor worked and in doing so, I discovered other Open Relay reporting sites that worked the same way as MAPS and ORBS.ORG does/did.
Those sites are ordb.org, orbz.org and some others. Replacing them in the inbound rule, where maps and orbs once were, permitted filtering of those open relay servers. Now the spam mail has dropped considerably.
One problem remains. The mail message that is bounced back to the client from Raptor states:
Sorry, this system does not talk to systems on the Realtime Blackhole List. See for more information.
Now this information is false, the rule was set up to use smtp.rbl.relays.org and not maps.vix.com. Ordb.org was the list that bounced the message, so the sender, if they care, is told about the wrong rbl list.
On page 3-20 of the Raptor 6.5 configuration book it mentions that you can have a list of these "RBL Domains" (which I do). And in the second paragraph it mentions a configuration setting called "smtpd.rbl_mesage.<domain>". "Mesage" is a type in the manual; it should be "message". I know because I did a text search for that string and it came up empty, replacing "mesage" with "message" and it returned only one file, smtpd.exe, so some of this appears to be hard-coded.
Now my question:
Does anyone know how to configure smtpd.rbl_message.<domain> and where you place the string?
Thanks,
-Phil
Excuse the long message but I wanted to be clear, if you want, skip to the bottom, and see my question first.
Recently I discovered that ORBS.ORG shut down. I found out the hard way when their server, or the mirrors, began returning 127.0.0.2 for everything. This of course told Raptor that this sender was an open relay and it bounced the message back to the sender.
I removed smtp.rbl.relays.orbs.org from my inbound SMTP rule. I found the line in the properties of the rule under the "advanced services" tab. In addition, my smtpd proxy server has nothing set because I only want the inbound traffic scanned for spam.
Well with these sites out of commission, orbs.org and maps.vix.com, I had to learn a few things on how this aspect of Raptor worked and in doing so, I discovered other Open Relay reporting sites that worked the same way as MAPS and ORBS.ORG does/did.
Those sites are ordb.org, orbz.org and some others. Replacing them in the inbound rule, where maps and orbs once were, permitted filtering of those open relay servers. Now the spam mail has dropped considerably.
One problem remains. The mail message that is bounced back to the client from Raptor states:
Sorry, this system does not talk to systems on the Realtime Blackhole List. See for more information.
Now this information is false, the rule was set up to use smtp.rbl.relays.org and not maps.vix.com. Ordb.org was the list that bounced the message, so the sender, if they care, is told about the wrong rbl list.
On page 3-20 of the Raptor 6.5 configuration book it mentions that you can have a list of these "RBL Domains" (which I do). And in the second paragraph it mentions a configuration setting called "smtpd.rbl_mesage.<domain>". "Mesage" is a type in the manual; it should be "message". I know because I did a text search for that string and it came up empty, replacing "mesage" with "message" and it returned only one file, smtpd.exe, so some of this appears to be hard-coded.
Now my question:
Does anyone know how to configure smtpd.rbl_message.<domain> and where you place the string?
Thanks,
-Phil