Thanks for all the ideas, I'll need some time to mull them over. A quick comment on Pat's astute RBL suggestion - I already do use a fairly gnarly setup for the Mail Transfer Agent, including use of RBLs. It more or less matches Marc Merlin's setup for SourceForge discussed here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/msg01672.html Adding the spl.spamhaus.org to the RBL list seems to be fine, but a quick one minue experiment suggests that dbsl.org produces way too many false positives. -Jeff ------------------- 2003-11-19 16:05:32 recipients refused from mx2.freebsd.org [216.136.204.119] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:05:35 recipients refused from sunsite.dk [130.225.247.90] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:05:36 recipients refused from baron.me.umn.edu [128.101.142.119] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:05:40 recipients refused from uclink-store.berkeley.edu [128.32.25.161] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:05:40 recipients refused from daedalus.apache.org [208.185.179.12] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:05:44 recipients refused from onion.develooper.com [63.251.223.166] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:05:46 recipients refused from onion.develooper.com [63.251.223.166] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:05:55 recipients refused from kloten.virtualserver.ch [161.58.221.244] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:06:00 recipients refused from xf86.isc.org [204.152.184.208] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:06:02 recipients refused from daedalus.apache.org [208.185.179.12] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:06:14 recipients refused from [64.161.22.236] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:06:16 recipients refused from codeweavers.com [198.144.15.226] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:06:19 recipients refused from daedalus.apache.org [208.185.179.12] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:06:20 recipients refused from mapnp.geeks.org [209.98.1.50] (RBL dsbl.org) 2003-11-19 16:06:32 recipients refused from 81-22-193-14.dialup.stelcom.ru [81.22.193.14] (RBL dsbl.org) _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip