Blocking Countries using an RBL.

Alex Neuman alex at rtpty.com
Mon Mar 15 19:45:57 GMT 2010


What about foreign spammers using US servers, or US customers who host
their email elsewhere for economic or legal reasons?

On 3/15/10, Christopher Fisk <cfisk at qwicnet.com> wrote:
>>  That would be kinda dangerous to assume all email from a
>>  country is
>>  spam.  The US is #1 according to SpamHaus.  If you want
>>  to block an
>>  entire country, you could add the TLD to your MTA access
>>  list.
>
> None of the businesses we handle email for handle orders for customers
> outside the US, Canada and Mexico, so we have been looking for an easy way
> to block mail from overseas.  If you find an easy to use DNSBL for this I
> would love to know about it!
>
>
> Christopher Fisk
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