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

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Dustin,
   That was the first thing I thought of.  I stuck the IP number
in my access file, eg

139.140.14.83   OK

This didn't work.  Then I tried:

Spam:bowdoin.edu        FRIEND

and various permutations of this.  Yes, I did makemap.  The DNSBL
rulesets always killed the emails first.  Searching on the net
revealed that running your own whitelist in front of the RBLs
seems to be the only workaround.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Dustin Baer wrote:

> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:16:13 -0600
> From: Dustin Baer <dustin.baer at IHS.COM>
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> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: burned by spamcop, how to whitelist sites from RBL's
>
> "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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