Has postini been taken over?

Fri Aug 20 05:27:37 UTC 2004

At 10:17 PM 19-08-04 -0700, Ray Wong wrote:

> > I am just trying to understand how postini is bypassing my anti-spam ACLs.
>
>Again, you haven't answered his question.... Did your ISP or some other
>email provider possibly sign up for Postini?  How many different domain
>addresses forward into your account?  If you accept mail from any other
>server for any other domain, that domain could be a postini customer.

You are missing my point.  I am the ISP.  I have a *downstream* customer 
who may or may not have signed up to Postini.  This *downstream* customer 
is bypassing my anti-spam ACLs by somehow using Postini.  I am trying to 
figure out how Postini works.

-Hank

>Postini does not originate or forward spam, they filter mail destined for
>their customer domains.  Some spam gets through their filters, because
>spammers are smart and adaptively evil.  It's really quite simple.
>
>
>--
>
>Ray Wong
>rayw at rayw.net