Dealing with large ISP Mailers

[Randal, Phil]

If you're using sendmail, see
http://blue-labs.org/howto/access_hints.php .

In your sendmail access file you could put

Connect:aol.com	RELAY

Cheers,

Phil

--
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

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> Sent: 23 February 2007 14:36
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Dealing with large ISP Mailers
> 
> As much as I would rather be draconian about this and say "tough,
> that's how it's designed", my users won't let this go on this way, so
> I need to fix it.
> 
> Mail from one of the AOL mx servers gets caught in one of the RBLs.
> 
> One of my users got the "we have detected UCE... click here to release
> the message" and they did, and they even logged in and whitelisted the
> sender.
> 
> But another message came in later, and was still held up 
> because of the RBL.
> 
> Specifically, the IP is listed in TQM-SPAMTRAP and SORBS-SPAM.
> 
> Is there a way that I can whitelist the AOL MX at the RBL level but
> continue to run rules against it to properly score it otherwise? In
> other words, I don't want to get a 123 friend greeting.exe or
> something like that from an AOL user just because I had to w/l their
> relay server.
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