Nigel Frankcom wrote the following on 10/21/2007 11:22 PM -0800: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:27:41 -0500, Igor Chudov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> I was looking at this article >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam >> >> It claims that "only five countries are hosting 99.68% of the global >> spammer websites", of which the foremost is China, hosting 73.58% of >> all web sites referenced within spam.[30] >> >> I already refuse all email coming from China (and Korea). Never >> regretted this. >> >> Now, I also want to ignore all emails mentioning all China and Korea >> hosted websites (not just .cn, but also .coms and so on that have >> Chinese IPs). >> >> I will have to not do so with Russia hosted sites, due to me being a >> Russian by origin. >> >> Is there some tool that I could use to accomplish that? >> > > Perhaps it's a translation thing; but I was under the impression he > wanted to drop these early, not run them through the entire mail/sa > process first? > > (In defence of my MTA comments :-D) > > Nigel >
I don't how one could determine the IP address associated with a URL in the body of a message at the MTA level without accepting the message first for further processing. The best you could do at the MTA level is block URLs that have a certain extension like .cn, but that's not what the OP was asking for, and explicitly stated as much. Bill