Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-28 Thread Justin Mason
jidanni writes: > http://joi.ito.com/archives/2007/08/02/my_email_not_good_enough_for_you.html > > ...it's because the email is from an Asian ... > .. get my IP address added to some white-list ... > > The comment I wanted to add is: > That's right, tell them to put me on the > white-(person-yes

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-27 Thread jidanni
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2007/08/02/my_email_not_good_enough_for_you.html ...it's because the email is from an Asian ... .. get my IP address added to some white-list ... The comment I wanted to add is: That's right, tell them to put me on the white-(person-yes-just-like-them,-but-living-in-g

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-27 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Derek Harding wrote: > On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 12:37 -0700, John D. Hardin wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > And no wonder you don't seem to get many new customers from > > > elsewhere anyway, I bet. They can't get a word in edgewise. But > > > n

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-27 Thread John Scully
/CTO iSupportISP LLC 33 North high st Suite 1000 Columbus, OH 43215 614-586-4040 614-226-6110 Mobile 614-586-4044 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Daniel Aquino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:52 PM Subject: Re: Bouncing emails fr

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-27 Thread Derek Harding
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 12:37 -0700, John D. Hardin wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > And no wonder you don't seem to get many new customers from > > elsewhere anyway, I bet. They can't get a word in edgewise. But > > never mind. You won't see this message either. > > Whoa

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-26 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And no wonder you don't seem to get many new customers from > elsewhere anyway, I bet. They can't get a word in edgewise. But > never mind. You won't see this message either. Whoa. Is anybody else getting a sense of Deja Vu here? -- John Hardin KA7

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-26 Thread jidanni
DA> I used IP::Country::Fast to block everything except canada and usa... DA> I've only had to add one company to an allow list because they are in Italy... DA> I don't think its that bad of a solution, DA> depending on where your companies customers are located.. And no wonder you don't seem

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-24 Thread jidanni
DA> I used IP::Country::Fast to block everything except canada and usa... DA> I've only had to add one company to an allow list because they are in Italy... DA> I don't think its that bad of a solution, DA> depending on where your companies customers are located.. And no wonder you don't seem

RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-21 Thread Skip Brott
This would work fine if you expect emails only from those countries. Our company does business in Central & South America as well (which also means allowing lots of Spanish & Portuguese). We do not do business in Europe or Asia and I see quite a bit of spam from from *.ru and *.su. I do not have

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel Aquino
I used IP::Country::Fast to block everything except canada and usa... I've only had to add one company to an allow list because they are in Italy... I don't think its that bad of a solution, depending on where your companies customers are located.. On 8/21/07, Skip Brott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Fwd: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel Aquino
-- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Aquino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 21, 2007 9:51 PM Subject: Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries To: "John D. Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I used IP::Country::Fast to block everything except canada and usa... I&

RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-21 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Skip Brott wrote: > Out of curiosity (as this is a feature that I would like to have > as well for a couple of speficic countries), is there a reason > that a couple of SA plugins cant be used: > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/URICountryPlugin > Or > http://wiki.apache

RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-21 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > Hi John, How do I find that file please ? I look at my > SA in Cpanel and can't see where to input the text > below? > > describe BL_COUNTRY_CN_1 Mail client in China > header BL_COUNTRY_CN_1 eval:check_rbl('china', > 'cn.countries.nerd.dk') > scoreBL_C

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-21 Thread Andy Sutton
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 10:13 -0700, John D. Hardin wrote: > That's kind of an extreme solution, and generally considered bad > practice. Yup - Be prepared for false positive hits if you use this method. I rented a server that just happened to be on a netblock in Germany. US websites/email thoug

RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-21 Thread Skip Brott
Out of curiosity (as this is a feature that I would like to have as well for a couple of speficic countries), is there a reason that a couple of SA plugins cant be used: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/URICountryPlugin Or http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RelayCountryPlugin I am not certain

RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-21 Thread Chris
>-Original Message- >From: John D. Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 3:24 PM >To: Chris >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries > >On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > >> Hi J

RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-21 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > Hi John, Many thanks for the input on this - it's > appreciated. > > John, whereabouts *precisely* do I input the text below > please and is that all that needs to be done ? > > >describe BL_COUNTRY_CN_1 Mail client in China > >header BL_COUNTRY_CN_1 eval:ch

RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-21 Thread Chris
>-Original Message- >From: John D. Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 7:14 PM >To: Chris >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries > >On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > >>

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Chris wrote on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:27:12 +0200: > Not sure what happened there, and don't intentionally > upset anyone, but I sent both the emails to > users@spamassassin.apache.org ? You didn't upset me, you simply hit reply instead of posting a new message when you thought you started a new th

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-20 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > Does anyone know of a way, that whenever someone emails > from say, for example, Nigeria, Korea, Russia and > China, the email gets returned to them, saying > something like, "Email failed, no such email address" > please ? > > Any help appreciated. That's kin

RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-20 Thread Chris
7:20 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries > >*Please*, if you want to post a new message, then hit "new >message" and >not "Reply", thanks. > >Kai > >-- >Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany >Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com > > >

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
*Please*, if you want to post a new message, then hit "new message" and not "Reply", thanks. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-20 Thread Chris
>-Original Message- >From: Dave Pooser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 5:08 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries > >> Does anyone know of a way, that whenever someone emails >>

RE: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-20 Thread Chris
>-Original Message- >From: Dave Pooser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 5:08 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries > >> Does anyone know of a way, that whenever someone emails >>

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-20 Thread Dave Pooser
> Does anyone know of a way, that whenever someone emails > from say, for example, Nigeria, Korea, Russia and > China, the email gets returned to them, saying > something like, "Email failed, no such email address" > please ? You can use the DNS blacklists at blackholes.us to block based on sender

Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-20 Thread Chris
Does anyone know of a way, that whenever someone emails from say, for example, Nigeria, Korea, Russia and China, the email gets returned to them, saying something like, "Email failed, no such email address" please ? Any help appreciated. Chris.