Chris Norman said: - > Would it be possible, therefore, that during spam DB rebuild, that the IP address of 205.178.149.7 (which did not send to me directly)* could be added or bumped in the grey list just in case?
Sure. It's possible. > Would this even be a good idea or would it buy us anything? No. Nothing at all. This is the normal path for a "proper" email message to take. 1 A friend sends an email from his PC [SenderIP] to you, via his ISP's MTA 2 ISP's MTA [ISPA Relay] receives message, spools it to you 3 Your MTA [Me}] gets the message, delivers it to a local mailbox. How's this any different from: - > SenderIP --> ISP relay --> Me ? Spam sent from a netbot takes exactly the same path. Thus, this is useless in terms of distinguishing between them. Having said that, mxGuard, for example, will do a DNSBL lookup on as many intermediate hosts as you specify. * Some DNSBL will actually penalise anyone who sends you a message directly, since one isn't "supposed" to send SMTP from a dynamic IP address, for example. Kind regards, William Stucke ZAnet Internet Services (Pty) Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 083-308-0700 - WFS 011-460-0115 - Office 086-502-9444 - Fax http://www.zanet.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
