You'll have better luck blocking known dialup pools and known spammers
using the DNS RBLs than just the people with no reverse DNS. There are
several good freely available DNSRBLs out there that cut down the amount
of spam substantially.

BTW, this is a nice feature to sell Linux in your enterprise...compare
the price of similar products for Exchange...8-)

-- db

David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Alan Cox
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Admin: can someone put in a reverse DNS for this mailer?
>
>
> On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 17:47, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine
> > Please clarify that point, Alan. Until then, I am inclined
> to agree with
>
> I turned on blocking non reverse DNS about 6 months ago. It removed
> rather more legitimate mail than spam
>

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