Blocking network in MS?

[Jan-Peter Koopmann]

On Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:18 PM Max Kipness <mailto:mkipness at GENIANT.COM> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> If I wanted to block an entire network from being able to
> email our domain, what is the format to accomplish this in
> the MS blacklist file?
> Or should it be done in SpamAssassin?

No. At your MTA! Why accept the mail to then block/bounce it afterwards. If you do not want mails from a specific network, tell your MTA to block it.

> What I'm trying to do is write a script that monitors inbound 
> spam and compares IP addresses. If somewhere around 5 - 10 
> spam come from different email domains, but from the same IP, 
> I want to look at just blocking the IP.

I am pretty sure ViSpan can do this for you already (although only for sendmail at the moment).


Regards,

Jan-Peter Koopmann
Dipl.-Wirtschaftsinformatiker
Geschäftsführer / COO

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