Scott, If I understand this correctly, the drawback with this work-around, compared with the MAILFROM test, is that it only looks up the A record and doesn't check for any MX records. Any idea if this will cause a number of false positives?
/Roger >>Scott could yo explain how this works? >> >> > Or, if you have Declude JunkMail, you can just add a line "VERISCAM >> rhsbl . 64.94.110.11 8 0" > >That line will add a test of the "rhsbl" type named VERISCAM. That test >uses "." as the zone to query, and expects a return IP of >64.94.110.11. RHSBL tests look up the domain in the return address of an >E-mail. For a similar test, you can look at: > >DSN rhsbl dsn.rfc-ignorant.org 127.0.0.2 3 > 0 > >For example, if the E-mail address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", the VERISCAM test >would look up the A record for "example.com.", whereas the DSN test would >look up the A record for "example.com.dsn.rfc-ignorant.org". > >The VERISCAM test is essentially a hack that take advantage of the fact >that you can use "." at the end of a domain you are looking up, and the >fact that RHSBL tests use the domain name in the return address. > > -Scott --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
