On Wednesday 22 October 2008 01:27:51 Terry Carmen wrote:
> 
> Although it's frowned on by some, I've had much better success using a 
> combination of RBLs and RDNS pattern matching to reject spam. Since a 
> huge proportion of spam comes from zombie networks that are identified 
> by DHCP addresses, a dozen or so regular expressions like these will 
> block a ton of spam.
> 
> smtpd_client_restrictions=reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname . . .
> 
> check_client_access=regexp:/etc/postfix/spam_ip_regex
> 
> spam_ip_regex file:
> 
> /[ax]dsl.*\..*\..*/i     450 AUTO_XDSL Email Rejected. You appear to be 
> connecting from a Dynamic IP address. 
> /client.*\..*\..*/i       450 AUTO_CLIENT Email Rejected. You appear to 
> be connecting from a Dynamic IP address.
> /cable.*\..*\..*/i       450 AUTO_CABLE Email Rejected. You appear to be 
> connecting from a Dynamic IP address.
> /dial.*\..*\..*/i         450 AUTO_DIAL Email Rejected. You appear to be 
> connecting from a Dynamic IP address. 
> 
This looks fairly useful.  Does anyone else have any experience with this 
approach, who might be able to offer insight into whether it's valid or not?

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Richard Foley
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