It's from all over - I actually have an anti-spam service for my clients, and so the potential is that it is multiple sites a day that could be affected.
Of course the real solution to this one is to get Spamcop to back off on this particular listing. I find it outrageous myself. Even in the US it's not always possible to get a fixed IP address in some locations for small businesses and outside the US it's often simply not available. Their rule seems to not care if you use a smart host to relay your mail through - we have verified that the "originating" address is the one that is blocked - so mail servers that 1) run on dynamically assigned addresses and 2) any mail server that has to get a new IP address no matter what the reason (just moving ISPs for example) is going to be hit by this rule. I don't even know how long it's been in existence - but a customer contacted me yesterday to say that they were being blocked from sending mail because they had a new IP address! My guess is that this is fairly new, because my own site changed IP addresses about a month ago, and we did not get caught in this particular rule of theirs. Even though it "expires" after 24 hours if there are no complaints, 24 hours of having outbound mail blocked can be a killer for a business. With SA we can at least control the impact through rules, but many sites simply block based on the RBL itself. Danita >>> Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/6/2003 8:16:22 AM >>> > -----Original Message----- > From: Danita Zanre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Offsetting rules? > > > I believe this is possible, but I have no idea how. It has recently > come to our attention that Spamcop is doing "preemptive" > blocking of new > IP addresses that come online sending email. While I see the theory > behind this, there are MANY legitimate sites that need to use Dynamic > DNS for their mail hosts due to costs (often in countries outside the > US, etc.). Since a mail server using Dynamic DNS will change its IP > address fairly often, this poses problems for our site because we KNOW > that we receive mail from such sites and cannot block them. *snip* Can you whitelist their domains or is it from all over? Taking away -2.0 for being in 2 net tests kind of defeats the purpose. You need to look for specific things in the emails you _WANT_ to get. Are you an ISP or a company? If a company, what do you do? If you sell widgets, then an email with widgets in it should get -1.0. And so on..... You could give negative points for certain net blocks. Again, not very specific and will open doors to spammers. HTH Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men." - Willy Wonka ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
