They aren't my users though, they are clients of ours using their own
SMTP servers that are based in China. (We are in Canada)  They are
trying to send email to us and its all getting picked off by dspam, I'm
assuming because it's all in Chinese.  I then have to forward the email
to the original recipient (internal user) but the Chinese characters get
corrupted in the process and it becomes illegible.

My concern with white listing the IP is the sending server sends mail
for a multitude of users from all different companies, and white listing
that IP would relay open us up to spam from half of China

I can't think of a solution that would accept mail from the specific
users but disallow the rest of sending servers users not to spam us.
Letting the specific email addresses bypass dspam exposes us to the
least amount of risk.  

Andy




-----Original Message-----
From: John Peacock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 1:07 PM
To: Andy Durant
Cc: Todd S. Florman; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dspam-users] Specific domains bypass dspam?

Andy Durant wrote:
> I thought about that but some of the customers in question are based
in
> China and are on a shared server with thousands of non-related users.

Rather than whitelist by address (which as I said is easily forged), you

should be setting up SMTP AUTH, so the users in China still use your 
server to send mail out.  If you find that port 25 is blocked in China, 
you can use SMTP over SSL (port 465) or SMTP SUBMISSION (port 587).

John

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