HRBL is a DNS based blacklist provider.
You can use it on your mailserver in different ways, just like any other common blacklists like Spamhaus or Spamcop.
This service is free of charge. To lower the load use your own or your own ISP's caching nameserver please.
To manually check if an IP address or hostname is listed in HRBL or not, you can use the checking page too.
If you want to know if the IP address of your SMTP client (say 1.2.3.4) is listed in HRBL, then query the A record of 4.3.2.1.bl.hrbl.hu.
If you want to check if an SMTP client's hostname or domain name (say host.example.com) is listed in HRBL, then query the A record of host.example.com.uribl.hrbl.hu.
If you get 127.0.0.2 back from either blacklist, then it is listed. The TXT record contains the error message you can give to your remote SMTP client. Don't worry, most modern MTAs do this fully automatically. Just set up using bl.hrbl.hu and uribl.hrbl.hu. Check your MTA's documentation how to use a standard DNS based blacklist.
In Postfix, for example, you could write:
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
…
reject_rbl_client bl.hrbl.hu
reject_rhsbl_helo uribl.hrbl.hu
reject_rhsbl_sender uribl.hrbl.hu
reject_rhsbl_reverse_client uribl.hrbl.hu
…
Spamassassin can score up messages that have been received via hosts that are listed in HRBL:
header RCVD_IN_HRBL eval:check_rbl('hrbl', 'bl.hrbl.hu.')
describe RCVD_IN_HRBL Received via a relay in HRBL (http://hrbl.hu/)
tflags RCVD_IN_HRBL net
score RCVD_IN_HRBL 3
It can also look up links in incoming messages if they are listed in HRBL:
urirhssub URI_IN_HRBL uribl.hrbl.hu. A 2
body URI_IN_HRBL eval:check_uridnsbl('URI_IN_HRBL')
describe URI_IN_HRBL Contains a URI listed in uribl.hrbl.hu
tflags URI_IN_HRBL net
score URI_IN_HRBL 3
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