spamhaus-XBL

[Martin Hepworth]

Jason

Another reason why doing the RBL's in MailScanner.conf if a bad idea
(tm) if you have this kind of setup. Leave it to SA and you won't have
quite so much of an issue.


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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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Jason wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
>    I see! But as what I have stated in my first message, we can't control
> what dynamic IP that our ISP would assign to us. So if we are assigned a
> bad
> ip, we would be in trouble, at least for a while until we get a new ip.
> That
> doesn't seem sensible.
>
> Jason
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Drew Marshall" <drew at THEMARSHALLS.CO.UK>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: spamhaus-XBL
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Drew
>>
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