BP> [email protected] skrev den 2019-08-13 12:42:

>>> Do the sender domains use DKIM? If they do, amavis can route messages 
>>> from
>>> specific sender domains to dedicated policy banks.
>> No they do not.

BP> good or bad ?

BP> to make it clear, do not whitelist untrusted senders, not even if sender
BP> domains is local

Because spammers spend SO much effort trying to figure out what my "easily 
spoofed" sender white-list is? <snark>

I mean really - I'd be completely shocked if ANY spammer, EVER, spent ANY time 
at all making even the slightest effort trying to get around a sender whitelist.
Really, it seems like a ludicrous idea.

Yes senders can be forged. 
Yes, it's *possible* you might get another piece or two of spam. Highly 
unlikely, but possible.
And if you start seeing an unusual uptick in spam, you can simply remove that 
single white-list entry.

But no, lets run away screaming in terror at the *possibility* that someone 
might get around your sender white-list and deliver a few messages that 
shouldn't be delivered. [All while the deluge of messages [spam] we don't want 
that don't use sender white-listing swamp us.]

I know I'm probably just responding uselessly - but this keeps popping back up 
as a reason not to white-list and, IMO, it's a *completely theoretical* problem 
with not a single real case of an actual dilemma faced by a real user in a real 
world.

Sender white-listing can be quite useful [at least it is for me] and shouldn't 
be dismissed as a terrible solution, out of hand.

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