If we can just figure out how to make this happen to the hundred of spam
emails each day and not the legitimate emails from AT&T and Verizon, there's
money to be made here.

first, total connects from ATTBI TLD is right up there in qty with the spammer TLD's


Host/Domain Summary: SMTPD Connections (top 30)
 connections  time conn.  avg./conn.  max. time  host/domain
 -----------  ----------  ----------  ---------  -----------
    1950        1:54:14          4s        32s   flowgo.com
    1792        1:43:08          3s       233s   webshoppe.net
    1462        9:21:04         23s       258s   opinionsurveys.com
    1340        3:49:42         10s       231s   comcast.net
     926        3:02:29         12s       228s   tpcper.com
     909        3:19:38         13s       236s   rr.com
     811        0:20:46          2s         4s   e-i1.com
     698        2:06:03         11s       230s   attbi.com      <<<<<
     460        0:50:35          7s        22s   smtp1.com
     404        0:14:20          2s        29s   sawyerfg.com
     403        0:10:17          2s        12s   trainovation.com
     390        0:16:46          3s        44s   yahoo.com
     382        0:23:37          4s        14s   registeredwinners.com

and then the "subscriber networks" filter lays waste to Orcs:

Client host rejected: ACL mta_clients_subscriber The IP address of your sending machine is on a proscribed subscriber access network. Send from a non-subscriber network (total: 4863)
793 comcast.net
494 attbi.com <<<<<<<<<<<
259 optonline.net
250 dsl-verizon.net
198 rima-tde.net
187 ameritech.net
178 pacbell.net
170 telesp.net.br
133 btopenworld.com
118 t-dialin.net
116 swbell.net
113 prodigy.net.mx


Then PTR hostname and sender.domain filtering:

Client host rejected: The sending IP is not authorized to send MAIL FROM: @sender.domain (total: 3933)
378 comcast.net
249 rr.com
168 attbi.com <<<<


then BS in helo field:

Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname (total: 2610)
         381   217.132.85.173
          50   69.60.0.10
          50   69.60.0.43
          36   attbi.com  <<<<

SAV kills forged sender.domains:

    Sender address rejected: unverified address (total: 4827)
         485   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
         226   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.
.
.
.
           4   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           4   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           4   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  <<<<<<<<<<<
           4   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  <<<<<<<<<<  lots of clumps of these
           4   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

    Sender address rejected: undeliverable address (total: 95)
           2   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  <<<<<
           1   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  <<<<<<<

As you can see, be defining ATTBI subscriber networks as illegitimate, we solved that abuse problem definitively, with no false positives. the rest is peanuts, such as spam coming form ATT MTAs.

When ATT fixes their abuse problem on their subscriber networks, we will remove the blanket block on their subscriber nets. Fair enough?

Len


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