Matt Kettler wrote on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:04:36 -0500:
It's almost certainly someone who uses milter-sender. milter-sender does this
dummy check before accepting mail. It's taking the verify MX record of
envelope
sender one step further and verifying the whole address.
But the envelope
tuxorama.com does a SMTP probe for every posting to this list
and is one of the very few IPs I have firewalled off. The probes seem
to always come from 81.169.185.26 (now they'll probably change IPs and I'll
have to block some other IP or range), so they, while irritating are very
easy to
Ahh, thanks for the info. I'll keep 'em on ignore then. ;)
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Subject: Re: Does tuxorama.com sound
List Mail User wrote:
tuxorama.com does a SMTP probe for every posting to this list
and is one of the very few IPs I have firewalled off. The probes seem
to always come from 81.169.185.26 (now they'll probably change IPs and I'll
have to block some other IP or range), so they, while
Matt Kettler wrote:
Realistically, most spam I get seems to be using addresses that are already in
the spammer's database of valid email addresses. While I see a lot of viruses
using dictionary based MAIL FROM addresses, I see very little spam doing this.
So I don't think this really changes
Rick Macdougall wrote:
you do not bounce after accepting
Hear, hear!
I wish AOL and Yahoo would figure this out.
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Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer
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List Mail User wrote:
tuxorama.com does a SMTP probe for every posting to this list
and is one of the very few IPs I have firewalled off. The probes seem
to always come from 81.169.185.26 (now they'll probably change IPs and I'll
have to block some other IP or range), so they, while
