Whitelist issue

[Glenn Steen]

On 05/07/07, Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Vivek Mittal wrote:
>
> > This is going a bit off-topic from getting whitelisting to work in the
> > first place.  However, I am interested in know more about how
> > whitelisting your own domain can get you listed.  The way we are using
> > MailScanner is to scan all incoming email.  I have set up our mail
> > server to accept emails to our domain only and not to relay anything
> > else.  I'm pretty sure that our server is not an open relay.  So how
> > does whitelisting the domain affect this?
>
> If you are a corporate network and have reasonable security in place I
> guess not.
>
> But if you are an evil bunny working for an ISP with thousands of DSL
> subscribers you are in quite a different situation.
>
> And part of my job is cleaning out corporate networks after the got hosed
> by malware. So even corporate networks can get themselves blacklisted.
Definitely. Even if you are a strict corporate shop, there is little
to no benefit avoiding outbound scanning. Thing is to be in charge;).
. . Else someone else will be. Now, as to the problem. . .
Whitelisting by IP neatly solve the initial problem without exposing
one to easily spoof-able things:).
> Hugo.
>
> PS:
> A: Yes.
> >Q: Are you sure?
> >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
>
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