Reverse DNS and SMTP
David Charlap
David.Charlap at marconi.com
Thu Feb 28 22:06:04 UTC 2002
Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> What I do is format my smtp headers such that a very simple
> regex can find mail with no reverse dns and dump it in a spam folder.
> I find this catches a lot of the messages.
If your server is using a heuristic that has the potential of offending
your customers, you can make the blocking optional.
More specifically, respond to the "spam detected" condition by writing a
header that customers can check for. Once that header's in place, a
customer can configure his mail client to accept, delete, or spam-folder
the message. If a client wants these kinds of messages to be deleted on
the server, that may not be too hard to do either, once the header is
written.
-- David
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