FW: IP country block possible?

[Ken A]

Scott Silva wrote:
> mailscanner at aha4adsl.nl spake the following on 1/3/2007 9:01 AM:
>> Hello Developers,
>>
>> Although MailScanner is doing a good job on our servers the number of false
>> passes are rather high.
>>
>> We mainly have Dutch and Belgium contacts and therefore want to block
>> non-Dutch IP-ranges.
>>
>> There are several databases, like IP2location, available to find out from
>> which country/network the email is coming from.
>>
>> 1) Is there a way to implement these functions in MailScanner and/or
>> SpamAssassin? We find the current blacklist possibilities rather limited
>> (the ip2location database has 60000 records like:
>> "62.4.75.0","62.4.75.31","1040468736","1040468767","NL","Netherlands"
>> "62.4.75.32","62.4.75.79","1040468768","1040468815","DE","Germany"
>> "62.4.75.80","62.4.75.95","1040468816","1040468831","NL","Netherlands")
>>

If it's the country of Qatar you just have to block one IP.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-Block.html

Ken A
Pacific.Net

>> 2) an other option is to run your own blacklist server but in combination
>> with a mysql/php/perl database. Is there any documentation at that point?
>>
>> 3) can it be implemented in MailScanner directly?
>> With options like
>> Countries Allow = NL BE US
>> Countries Blocked = JP TW
>>
>> We had scanned the lists.mailscanner.info but could not find any related
>> topics.
>>
>> With kind regards,
>>
>> Ron Groen 
>>
>>
> What if one of your more important Dutch clients is traveling abroad and needs
> to e-mail you from some other country? Or even worse, your C.E.O. is in France
> for a vacation, but wants to e-mail back an important document. Will he be happy?
> 
> There are other ways to increase your spam to ham ratios. I live in the United
> States, where much spam originates, but I manage to kill the majority of it,
> and usually have very few false negatives. Those are in the low scoring spam
> range, and get their subjects adjusted to show that fact. I get very few
> complaints about spam.
> 
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