ANNOUNCE: mailwatch2rbl

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Scott Silva wrote:

> ip address [tab] RFC message
> The hard part is expiring entries, not adding them. You can always cat them 
> to the end of the file, but you need some magic to find an entry and remove 
> it when the time limit is up.
>
> Here are a few generated by Vispan from my system;
>
> 85.118.111.254	550 5.5.0 No Spammers Allowed
> 58.225.149.228	550 5.5.0 No Spammers Allowed
> 218.240.114.209	550 5.5.0 No Spammers Allowed
> 69.147.64.37	550 5.5.0 No Spammers Allowed
> 68.142.201.96	550 5.5.0 No Spammers Allowed
> 129.41.237.74	550 5.5.0 No Spammers Allowed
>
> How about adding it to iptables?

If you drop SMTP session on the MTA it will be a final decision. If you 
break it at the TCP level it will be sent to your backup server which may 
not have these restrictions.

I would discourage the use of TCP blocking techniques if favor of SMTP 
blocking actions.

Hugo.

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