SpamAssassin Hangup

[Gerry Doris]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat wrote:
>
> > Ouch!  You will reject some legitimate mails.  If no MX is defined for a
> > host, mail will go directly to that host if it has an A record.
>
> If they don't have an MX record, the DNS administrator is incompetent,
> and they're likely to have other problems (open relay, open proxy, etc).
>
> > I have lots of legit mails coming/going to such hosts.  These are mostly
> > in east Asia.
>
> Quite.  I get buckets of spam from them, too.
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall  DTM  VK2KFU  dave at esi.com.au  Ph: +61 2 9906-3377 Fx: 9906-3468
> (Unix Guru) Pacific ESI, Unit 22, 8 Campbell St, Artarmon, NSW 2065, Australia

I have a home network so I can get away with it but I have dropped all
emails originating in Asia.  I got so tired of all the porn/scams I just
toss them all.

--
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer