PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford
Whiteman
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:12 AM
To: Marc Catuogno
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Originating IP -I'm confused, please
don't flame me...
Why wouldn't they be getting the IP of my server once they
authenticate?
Does this happen with other
I just assumed that when mail came from my server...
From your server = originating IP is your server's IP. This is not
the case when sending from any MUA other than an app running on the
server itself!
You've def'ly been confused about the connecting IP of mail from your
local users,
:18 AM
To: Marc Catuogno
Subject: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Originating IP -I'm confused, please
don't flame me...
I just assumed that when mail came from my server...
From your server = originating IP is your server's IP. This is not
the case when sending from any MUA other than an app running
Marc Catuogno wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance again, but since I have updated my Declude to
include the EASYNET-DYNA test someone who is sending from an optimum
online account is getting caught by this test. Are all of optonline's
servers listed by this test? Or is something else going on
In an effort to catch spammers forging my domain, I've added my own
domain to a spamdomain test. Now all e-mails sent through outlook are
failing the test because the server is seeing them as coming from
whatever IP the user is connected to. Since they are mostly OPTONLINE
customers they are also
Why wouldn't they be getting the IP of my server once they
authenticate?
Does this happen with other users? Of course not! Since Declude with
IMail 7.x and lower doesn't know whether a connection was AUTHed,
there's no way that this could work. And with 8.x and higher, the
It's doing what it should, it's testing the sender and not the receiver.
Score both tests lower if you want to use that functionality for this
purpose, and so that you don't diminish the value of SPAMDOMAINS
otherwise, you should put it into a different spamdomains type of filter
file specific
