In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/17/03 at 11:52 PM, "Anand Buddhdev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/17/03 >> at 08:48 AM, Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> >A few days ago, I added hotmail.com, yahoo.com and aol.com as "freemail" >> >services in my courier's bofh file. This has already helped cut out a >> >fair bit of spam. >> >> >Does anyone else know which other domains can and should be added? >> >> Well - a large number of very ordinary folks use all of those services, >> and more than a few legitimate small businesses. >I think you misunderstood. The freemail feature does not block legitimate >mail from yahoo, hotmail and aol. It only blocks email where the sender >claims to have an address of yahoo, hotmail or aol, but is in fact, not >relaying from a yahoo, hotmail or aol server. That is almost certainly a >spammer. Genuine email from those services will still come in. >My question to other courier users was about other large "freemail" >services, and which ones they block. Ah so! Different story entirely. Some of the blacklists are 'searcheable' and provide such info. Google "freemail blacklist' has lots of such hits. The first: http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/freemail.html with 640 domains... etc. Regards, Bill Hacker -- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
