Whitelisting problem

Remco Barendse mailscanner at BARENDSE.TO
Wed Jan 8 09:11:59 GMT 2003


How does whitelisting on IP work? Do we need to use the same file and
format as we do with domain names??

From:           194.109.9.99                yes


On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> At 16:50 07/01/2003, you wrote:
>
> >IBM is a partner of ours so I have whitelisted ibm.com
> >
> >But now some spammer is forging both the envelope and header to look like
> >it cam from ibm.com
> >
> >The spammer appears to be creating random addresses ending in @ibm.com
> >
> >Is my only choice to remove ibm.com from the whitelist?
>
> If ibm.com only use a few outgoing mail servers, you could whitelist their
> IP addresses instead.
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> Julian Field
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