For thse of you who want to get some spam reduction and help me harvest viruses for my blacklist here's a trick you can do.
Set your highest numbered MX record to tarbaby.junkemailfilter.com Any connection to that IP will get a 451 error after the DATA command. No good email will be lost. But virus infected spambots often spam the highest numbered MX records first and I can get useful data for my blacklists. You are also welcome to use my blacklists further reducing your spam. Here's how to access these lists. http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Spam_DNS_Lists Here's what I'm doing. I'm looking for reverse DNS. Looking at if they close the connection with a quit even after some short delays. Looking at the HELO and if there's anything screwy about the from addresses or recipients. Generally I can detect spambots the first time they try to spam. This helps catch them sooner and everyone who uses my lists get the benefit. Of course you have to trust me, but I've been around long enough that everyone knows I'm a spam fighter. Here's how you set up your MX. 10 mail.yourdomain.com 20 tarbaby.junkemailfilter.com You lose some spam - I gain some data. Everyone can feel free to just use it. Marc Perkel http://www.junkemailfilter.com -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
