On Sun December 13 2009, Joe wrote: > Had you, as a human, tried the suggested address, it would have reached > me. I accept mail to it and abuse unconditionally, as required by RFC. not sure I understand what you are saying here..
> > More likely is that nearly all spam is now NDR spam, which shouldn't > work if sent to the RFC addresses. Of course, it would in many cases. > None of the ISPs seem to accept RFC address mail, and most companies who > use POP3 collection have never heard the term 'RFC'. talking way over my head here.. > > In addition to the blacklist, I reject about twenty countries on HELO > and PTR strings, a few really offensive ISPs by name (mostly German, > oddly), and make an attempt to identify and reject 'generic' PTRs. Along > with the Debian default of requiring complementary A and PTR records for > the sending IP address and a HELO which resolves using public DNS, this > cuts down the spam that exim4 accepts to between one and two a day, > which Icedove normally spots easily. Without the blacklist, it's about > forty a day. maybe you can explain this to me later, maybe off-list? or is there another list where you talk about these methods? I for sure am interested in blocking MORE S@@M.. I'm waffling right now, I've used Kontact for years and love it. On my laptop for traveling I used thunderbird, and I like the new Thunderbird 3 ! but I've got about 200 filters setup, and the thought of rebuilding them ;( -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org