Re: (OT) Help with Spam/Go-Between

2001-05-14 Thread Horace G. Friend III
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:30:46AM -0400, adam morley wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:03:50PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote: [snipped] Honestly, I'm not looking for a 100% spam-free environment because that's next to impossible without blocking other legit mail. seriously look into

Re: (OT) Help with Spam/Go-Between

2001-05-14 Thread Horace G. Friend III
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 04:13:43PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Using a large mallet, Horace G. Friend III whacked out: I read from the RedHat Sendmail HOWTO that the forward and reverse DNS should match. This became necessary due to the proliferation of spam mails on the Net.

Re: (OT) Help with Spam/Go-Between

2001-05-13 Thread Horace G. Friend III
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 07:40:12AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Using a large mallet, Horace G. Friend III whacked out: I wrote: Outblaze is a third party email outsourcer. By third party email outsourcer, do you mean it acts as a relay for selected clients such as

Re: (OT) Help with Spam/Go-Between

2001-05-13 Thread Duke Normandin
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:24:24AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Using a large mallet, Duke Normandin whacked out: You are correct as per the SMTP protocol and the relevant RFCs. However it's my understanding from a very recent thread on the FreeBSD-questions list, that the SMTP

Re: (OT) Help with Spam/Go-Between

2001-05-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Using a large mallet, Duke Normandin whacked out: I take that by mismatches you mean an almost correct match on the RDNS. In this day-and-age, 'almost' _is not_ good enough. The suckers _had_ better resolve. The implications of this whole thread for some Mutt users Heck no. Have you ever

(OT) Help with Spam/Go-Between

2001-05-12 Thread Horace G. Friend III
Hi, Since April 27, I noticed that ALL my mails pass through outblaze.com, a Hong Kong based company that I suspect, with extreme prejudice, allows relaying of spam or could be directly involved with sending of spam msgs. I found out about this go-between because I've spent weeks trying to

Re: (OT) Help with Spam/Go-Between

2001-05-12 Thread Horace G. Friend III
Thanks for clarifying a lot of things. On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 02:35:43PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Using a large mallet, Horace G. Friend III whacked out: Since April 27, I noticed that ALL my mails pass through outblaze.com, a Hong Kong based company that I suspect, with

Re: (OT) Help with Spam/Go-Between

2001-05-12 Thread Duke Normandin
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 07:40:12AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Using a large mallet, Horace G. Friend III whacked out: Aren't legit mail supposed to have matching forward and reverse DNS to avoid having it thought of (or classified) as spam mail? Definitely not. You are