Hi Ralf,

Ok. How would I test it now so that I know that it's really blocking SPAM
mails?

Thanks again for your help.

Neil.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Hildebrandt
To: 'postfix-userspostfix.org'
Sent: 11/1/2001 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: blocking SPAM

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:48:12AM -0600, Ronneil Camara wrote:

> It's accepting messages now. But there is one thing I notice though.
> I did a tail -f /var/log/maillog. Before the mail actually gets
delivered,
> it sits for a while. Maybe, that part is being check against the RBL.

Yep. DNS lookups take time.
 
> So, is this the trade-off for this rbl?

Yup. Install a cacing DNS, this might help: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

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