What does legalities or politics have to do with it? Just because Imail can
use RBL doesn't mean they are telling people to use it. That's the choice of
the provider.
If that is the case why not use something like I had stated earlier?
SMTP Penalty Box Method
"Have SMTP detect mass deliveries determined by a desired limit and then
delay delivery or even spool the rest of the messages until the Admin gets a
chance to clear it (in kind of a Penalty Box)... this would make the Spammer
believe he has succeeded and then the Administrator would be able to cancel
the remaining Spam before it is even delivered."
In addition hand it off to another process so that it doesn't bog down Imail
while doing this...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 8:35 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Blocking Spam & the RBL
There is a lot of murky politics and legalities around black
lists/holes. Commercial black listing is illegal, that's why this black
listing sites won't publish publicly their black lists.
Putting black hole support into Imail is clearly within Ipswitch's
technical reach, but I would not be surprised if they have political/legal
reasons for not doing it.
Unfortunately, the competition, commercial and open source, does support
blackholing and it appears to be quite effective. Reverse lookups also
help.
We are looking into building our own version of a www.MailShield.com type
of front-end based on FreeBSD and an open source MTA (sendmail, etc), that
would hook into black lists, do reverse lookups, and maybe some RegEX
filtering rules, and then forward to Imail. Not for "toot sweet" but we're
looking into it.
If anybody with Unix systems experience wants to help out....
Len
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>>Is anyone using the Realtime Blackhole List http://mail-abuse.org/ with
>> >>Imail, to filter Spam?
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>>L> Imail doesn't hook into black hole list, etc.
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