SPAM Prevention/Blacklists

Patrick W.Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Wed Mar 3 23:39:53 UTC 2004


[I know it is not spam-l, but I still am interested. :-]

On Mar 3, 2004, at 6:32 PM, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Scott Call wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:
>>
>>> Have you look at graylisting, temp failing mail with a 
>>> sender/receiver/IP
>>> you have not seen before?
>>
>> I don't know what the prevailing attitude is, but it seems to me
>> that 451ing unknown senders  is a good way to get on the bad side of
>> sysadmins who have to deal with the backlog until your server decides 
>> to
>> accept them.
>
> Well every valid to/from/ip gets thrown in mysql any new message with 
> that
> same to/from/ip would never be delayed again. Also I temp fail before 
> the
> DATA phase so body is not sent twice and I only temp fail for 5 min.

How's that working?  Many complaints?  How much spam did it kill (that 
other things don't)?

Thought about changing it from to/from/ip to from/ip?

-- 
TTFN,
patrick




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