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Date:      Fri, 14 May 2004 10:10:18 +0200
From:      "Slawek" <sgp@telsatgp.com.pl>
To:        <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How do fix a good solution against spam..
Message-ID:  <00e201c4398a$e56aac60$0505a8c0@Slawek>
References:  <1886.213.112.193.11.1084410012.squirrel@mail.hackunite.net><20040513040222.2b80e76e.freebsd@yazzy.org> <40A32939.9000100@kernel32.de> <20040513212144.GA37257@carrick.bishnet.net>

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Hello!
In message to "Marian Hettwer" <Mh@kernel32.de> sent Thu, 13 May 2004 22:21:44
+0100 you wrote:

 >>> Not only it's way faster than perl based messagewall, amavisd and
 >>> mailscanner etc but it also has neat stuff like making connections
 >>> back to the sender's MX checking for validity of the sender's email.
 >>
 >> This Feature sounds interesting. How is it actually called in exim ?
 >> I'd like to check the exim docu to see some details, because it really
 >> sounds interesting.
 >>
 >> Could you provide me with some keywords to search for ?

 TB> In Exim you're looking for sender callout verification.

 TB> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/spec_38.html#SECT38.21

 TB> It's pretty trivial to turn on, and in my experience works well.

One should be careful with source address checking as it may block mails in
e-mail discussion lists when source e-mail address is nonexistent. Using
things like "NO_SPAM" or "DELETE_THIS" in e-mail address is common (and
justified) in discussion lists.

-- 
Slawomir Piotrowski




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