Noel Jones opined on Wednesday 06-Mar-2013@20:32:34 > On 3/6/2013 7:22 PM, LuKreme wrote: >> /dev/rob0 opined on Wednesday 06-Mar-2013@17:26:02 >> >> I have no way of knowing all the IPs, they use some remailer service, and I >> don not want to block the remailer because they are not the problem. >> > > You don't reject based on the IP, you use the client hostname, very > likely the same name you're rejecting in your header check.
Ah, that will work. > Or use a check_sender_access map with the envelope sender address. Or that. > Most remailers use a client or envelope sender name something like > foo.remailer.com where foo is a unique identifier for that customer, > allowing you to reject mail from a specific business without > blacklisting the whole remailer. Or that as well. > And it's bad form to ask if there's a better way to do something and > then argue with the correct answer. > Well, yes, but when the answer was ‘block based on IPs” that wasn’t going to work for me, even if it was the correct answer. Thanks to both of you. >> I find the date checks useful (to reject messages with future/past dates). > > I used to do that too. Didn't catch much extra spam, but I did > discover that my coworkers correspond with a surprising number of > folks who can't set their PC to the right year. Maybe you'll have > better results. Been doing it for years. Used to catch a fair amount of spam, but looking at the logs it hasn’t triggered once in 90 days, so I can probably remove it. > > > > > -- Noel Jones -- Oh never resist an impulse, Sabrina. Especially if it's terrible.
