Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'm having luck looking up the name servers of the sending host to see
> if it's blacklisted
>
> set acl_c_ns = ${lookup
> dnsdb{>;ns=$acl_c_sender_host_domain}{$value}fail}
> dnslists=hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com=127.0.0.2/<;$acl_c_ns
>
> In this case $acl_c_sender_host_domain is the registry barrier pary of
> the host name (ie example.com)
>
> Anyhow - my point - it's catching a lot of spam especially from new
> domains just registered. Something worth exploring.
But how accurate is it? What is the logic behind doing that? If you
block an email randomly, there's something like a 90% chance it was
going to be spam anyway. That doesn't mean you should block email randomly.
On http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Spam_DNS_Lists it says you
should whitelist email using the configuration:
accept dnslists = hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com=127.0.0.1/$sender_host_name
Well ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# host -t a
wibble.pipex.net.hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com|grep 127.0.0.1
wibble.pipex.net.hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com A 127.0.0.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
It seems that any host with valid RDNS of *.pipex.net is in your
whitelist. Who knows what else lurks in your lists. Any chance of
publishing the list data?
Mike
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