Hi Roland,

Thanks for so much information.

> > However, there is still a huge amount of bounces that
> > are generated and are stuck in the queue. I can see, by
> > manually diagnosing, that so much of that is bounces to
> > "forged or innocent senders", but I don't know of a way
> > to effectively determine whether a bounce is legitimate
> or not.
> 
> Too bad courier cant reject based on non-resolvable helo,
> this would kill away all the Sobig, and many other trojans
> and proxy-spam. The simple patch published a few days ago
> will take care of them. If your perlfilter also parses the
> controlfile you could extract the helostring from there.

Yes, the perlfilter does parse the control file... as far as
the helo string, what should I do with that? What should I
check for?

> 
> Use a couple of DNSBL, especially those listing open
> proxies, dialups and adsl-/cable ranges, add the rdns of
> the remaining worst home- providers as wildcards to
> etc/smtpaccess, adding a few notorious /8 or countries
> also helps - depending on your geographic location and
> your customers. Also use the freemail-feature of etc/bofh
> to get rid of the most forged domains, start with Yahoo,
> MSN, Hotmail.

Great... any pointers on how to set that up efficiently? As
for the DNSBL, can someone provide a good, updated list of
DNSBL servers? I used to have one but it's outdated.

Ricardo




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