On 21/02/2007, at 04:52, Michael Holzt wrote:


If you really want to take this into account, use it as part of a
scoring system (e.g. spamassassin) but not as a sole reason.


I spent a while running myself ragged dealing with legitimate mail from big ISPs that had no PTR records for their mail servers.

In the end I tweaked spamassassin to give a high score (3.0) to anything without a PTR. That has worked like a charm because if a message is even slightly dodgy it will go over the threshold score, but there's still some headroom to take care of false positives (haven't had many). I have a similar rule dealing with mail from obvious dynamic addresses, giving it a score of 3.5

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