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BEST PRACTICE | DNSBLs and email filtering - how to get it right

ID: 98d75ad4-19b9-5e6a-bc70-bd077dcb852e

STIX ID: report--98d75ad4-19b9-5e6a-bc70-bd077dcb852e

Feed Name: The Spamhaus Project

Date Published: 2021-01-27

Date Updated: 2026-04-30

Author: The Spamhaus Team

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The document discusses whether an email transfer agent should keep the SMTP connection open while performing content inspection. It explains that keeping the connection open ensures senders receive rejection notifications (useful for handling false positives) but is resource-intensive and may cause delays during peak load, whereas closing the connection before inspection reduces resource use but prevents notifying senders of rejections.

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