[Rspamd-Users] spamhaus/abusix in rspamd or postfix

[Vsevolod Stakhov]

On 24/03/2025 15:50, Michael Grimm via Users wrote:
> Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod at rspamd.com> wrote:
> 
>> Why do you think Rspamd will send more requests than Postfix? I'm pretty sure there should be 0 difference in plain numbers.
> 
> I had had abusix defined in 2 different servers in rbl.conf (default from their website):
> 
> <secretkey>.attachhash.mail-beta.abusix.zone
> <secretkey>.authbl.mail.abusix.zone
> <secretkey>.combined.mail.abusix.zone
> <secretkey>.dblack.mail.abusix.zone
> <secretkey>.emailbl.mail-beta.abusix.zone
> <secretkey>.nod.mail.abusix.zone
> <secretkey>.noip.mail.abusix.zone
> <secretkey>.white.mail.abusix.zone
> 
> This produced a multitude of DNS queries and I closed in to their limit of 5000 queries/day.
> 
> After removing the usage of abusix in Rspamd and checking combined.mail.abusix.zone in postscreen I am down to a couple of hundreds today.

Ok, so you compare 8 RBL checks with a single one and claim that "it's 
better to do it in Postfix", right? Don't you see some logical issues 
with your claim?

Of course, you can equally check **just** the `combined` zone in Rspamd 
and have exactly the same number of DNS requests.