Hi, Bill, On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:30:39 +0000 in message number <[email protected]>, received here on 09/04/2011 17:57:11, W B Hacker <[email protected]> said:
> Bill Hayles wrote: > > Interesting, and thanks for the test. It could be said that I should > > use the rDNS result as my primary_hostname, but I don't really want > > to do that. > > Perhaps not - but there IS a middle-ground. > > A single IP is permitted PTR RR for more than one <domain>.<tld> Getting complicated and, I admit, at the limit of my understanding, but worth looking in to. > > Fair enough. You know much more about this than me. > >> > > Don't count on THAT. Old age and 'Irish Alzheimer's here... One of the reasons I run my own mail and web servers is to keep my brain active in my old age, so I can empathise! (big snip re [email protected]) > > > UNTIL it gets cleaned up at the source, however, rather than block all > of hotmail or even that one server in their pool, one may use a very > specific match. > > If you already have such, fine. I do, and I think that's where we came in, with the OP (remember him?) asking about blocking specific addresses. > > Otherwise, the example below may be modified. As always, useful code snippets from you, but for a single pest, my approach works. > > [1] Check the Message_ID and other MUA 'fingerprints' by grep of the > list archives. The 'apparent' perp won't respond favorably if being > framed for the infection on someone ELSE's Winbox! I tried to contact [email protected] a couple of times before I took any action. His address was spamming my mailing lists as all checks were passed. I got no reply, which is why I've had to reject all his mail, something I don't do lightly. -- This is Spain. We do things differently here! Bill Hayles [email protected] -- ## 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/
