spamhaus-XBL

[Frank Louwers]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:18:32AM -0000, Drew Marshall wrote:
> Jason said:
> > Hi,
> >
> >     But 219.132.219.6 is the client (outlook express), not the email
> > server.
> > The client is sending email through the server by smtp auth.
> >
> > Jason
>
> That won't make any difference. The client is establishing a SMTP
> connection to the server and so it's IP address will be checked. Spammers
> will often fake the client so all SMTP connections have to be checked.

Not realy. You should run auth-smtp on a different port (tcp/587) and
ONLY run auth-smtp on that port, no regular smtp. That way, you can
configure the MTA on 587 not to do special checks (blacklist checks).



Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers

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