[SURBL-Discuss] Thunderbird and SURBL?

[Jeff Chan]

On Friday, December 17, 2004, 2:25:56 PM, Tim A wrote:
>> From: Jeff Chan <jeffc at surbl.org>

>> Tim, If you're going to do this, please make sure your program
>> is internally caching the lookups pretty heavily.  For example,
>> make sure it's not checking the same domain more than once per
>> message (if it appears multiple times in the same message for
>> example).

> We are and have been caching lookups.

>>
>> > And secondly, please make sure you have a local whitelist! We have seen
>> > other companies using SURBL that don't whitelist the top doamins, like
>> > yahoo.com, w3.org, google.com,........ Those kinds of domains should be
>> > skipped from being looked up.
>>
>> Yes, please whitelist (don't check) say the top 100-200 of our
>> most often hit whitelist entries:
>>
>>  http://www.surbl.org/dns-queries.whitelist.counts.txt
>>
>> That will save many unnecessary DNS queries.

> Will look into this.

Thanks!

Jeff C.
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