Matt Sergeant wrote:
I pay [*] for a business DSL line (static IP, 20:1 contention, etc). I've
faxed my provider 3 times to try and get them to delegate rDNS to me and
they've done nothing. I've now given up. SPF is a more complete solution
to the problem that rDNS based blocking is trying to
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Skaag Argonius wrote:
I disagree with you and robert about remote mail admins not giving a damn.
Every mail admin i've talked to online, made the efforts to fix the
problems, because I am hosting mail for some companies that do some serious
business. Lost mail means lost
(note: I'm the author)
I have to agree with this guy here. Since I wrote the plugin, I've been in
touch with at least 10 mail admins who were interested in bringing their
server closer to spec. Course I'm not quite sure what spec is, I'm just a
hacker who is sick of spam on his box and used a
frank wrote:
(note: I'm the author)
I have to agree with this guy here. Since I wrote the plugin, I've
been in
touch with at least 10 mail admins who were interested in bringing
their
server closer to spec. Course I'm not quite sure what spec is, I'm
just a
hacker who is sick of spam on
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Sam Laffere wrote:
Make no mistake, this plugin is a heavy hand.
By its self, this plug-in seemed to eliminate the largest chunk of remaining
spam when I added it in. It also reduced the load on the server by saving
the following plugins the effort of more tests.
By its self, this plug-in seemed to eliminate the largest chunk of remaining
spam when I added it in. It also reduced the load on the server by saving
the following plugins the effort of more tests.
I used to do the equivalent for qmail, i.e. temporarily rejecting
incoming TCP connections from
With some inspiration from Sam, I cleaned up my code a bit and added a
configurable whitelist to my hnbl plugin. The new config file is called
'notbadmailfromhost'. Please note the need to edit the $errormail variable
to point to a fairly open address that you can check regularly like yahoo
or
I implemented this plugin on a test domain, and it seemed great, but after
implementing on my production server, I had too many customers not getting
their email because of the 'no reverse lookup' part. For now I have
remarked that out and still use the badmailfromhost file.
The badmailfromhost
1. Some mail servers(possibly Lotus Notes and others) don't queue and
retry.
Can you confirm this? It would not surprise me if Lotus Notes is
doing something suboptimal, but this particular problem seems
unlikely.
If there was version of ALLOWSOFT (opposite of DENYSOFT) that would allow
