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

[Dustin Baer]

"Jeff A. Earickson" wrote:
>
> 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,

Out of curiosity, do you have:

        FEATURE(`delay_checks', `friend')dnl

in your mc file?  "friend" is an optional argument.  If I remember
correctly, "delay_checks" delays the check_relay (checking the IP
address) rule until the check_rcpt rule is called.  Since check_relay is
called first, then if you don't have the delay_checks FEATURE, your
access map won't be looked at before the email is rejected.

Dustin

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