FW: IP country block possible?

[Scott Silva]

Ken A spake the following on 1/3/2007 5:06 PM:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
Oh yeah... I'm getting loads of spam from Qatar ;-)


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