burned by spamcop, how to whitelist sites from RBL's

[Dustin Baer]

"Jeff A. Earickson" wrote:
>
> Gang,
>
>    I got burned by spamcop yesterday when they RBL'ed a
> nearby college that we get lots of email from.  I use
> spamcop in sendmail, so I started rejecting everything from them.
> I know that Julian thinks spamcop is trigger-happy, he is probably
> right.
>
>    So I had the issue of "how do I whitelist a site from
> RBL's that I use?" in sendmail.  With the help of other MS
> listmembers and Google I have figured this out, and documented it.
> My essay can be found at:
>
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/faq?amp=&auth=ckd44d989c416b2f49c737a8ba387c20b6&file=325
>
> Thanks to all who helped.
>
> Jeff Earickson

Hi Jeff,

Since you are using SpamCop with Sendmail, couldn't you just add the
RBLed IP to a sendmail access file?  I have several IPs in my access
file, due to the fact that they are on RBLs and email from those IPs
pass through with no problem.

Dustin

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