If I may jump in here with a comment on your spam-blocking method... We've just been through hell with an ISP who uses a similar blocking scheme (blocking IP addresses in the headers of reported spam messages). We have a forwarding mail account set up for one of our out-of-office sales reps - [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously, names have been changed). Our sales rep had spam sent to the [EMAIL PROTECTED], and proceeded to report it to hisISP.net. hisISP.net then blocked all messages sent through our mail server, which effectively cut us out of any communication with our sales rep.
After about a week's worth of phone calls between our rep, our tech guys, and hisISP.net, we managed to get our server "whitelisted" at hisISP.net - although our whitelist entry apparently disappeared a few days later, and we had to do the whole thing again to get back into the whitelist. The point of this story - the collateral damage of this type of blocking scheme may outweigh it's effectiveness. Not saying that it will in your case, but just something to keep in mind. Kirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tracy Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xmail] How to specify a multi-line reject message for Xmail? I am attempting to modify the SmtpMsgIPBanSpammers (and similar) messages in server.tab to allow me to return a multi-line message in response to such an error. Specifically, I want to return something along the lines of: 550-5.7.1 Your IP address has been found in the headers of spam sent to this 550- network. All mail from your IP address will be refused. Do not attempt to 550-resend your message. If you have questions about this rejection, you 550-may send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or you may visit: 550 http://www.arisiasoft.com/Mailblock/blocked.aspx I had thought I could just separate the lines using \r\n but that didn't work - the literal string "\r\n" got send as part of the message (rather than being interpreted into <CRLF>). Any suggestions on this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
