Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/24/2011 12:13 PM, Zoe (Medway Hosting) wrote: - Original Message - From: "Marc Perkel" To: "Dave Restall - System Administrator,,," Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ? Hi

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/25/2011 9:59 AM, Mark Goodge wrote: On 25/03/2011 16:49, Marc Perkel wrote: SAV is similar in that it is useful to determine if the sender is coming from a bogus email address. I do respect the argument that it creates some traffic. But SPF calls also create some traffic as well so if yo

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-25 Thread Mark Goodge
On 25/03/2011 16:49, Marc Perkel wrote: SAV is similar in that it is useful to determine if the sender is coming from a bogus email address. I do respect the argument that it creates some traffic. But SPF calls also create some traffic as well so if you're on the Internet you'll be putting out d

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/24/2011 3:07 PM, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Hello, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, (Thu Mar 24 15:50:22 2011): I use exim to receive and process my emails - have done for years. I also use sender callouts - have done for years. Occasionally emails get rejected because they are

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-25 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 24 March 2011 14:50:22 + "Dave Restall - System Administrator,,," wrote: Hi, I use exim to receive and process my emails - have done for years. I also use sender callouts - have done for years. Occasionally emails get rejected because they are sent from non-existent addresses and

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-25 Thread W B Hacker
Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote: Hi, Guys - please step back a bit - my original email was not intended to start a flame war on the merits of sender callouts. Please keep the discord to yourselves and think twice. Most of you seem to have latched onto the sender callouts and focus

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-25 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, Guys - please step back a bit - my original email was not intended to start a flame war on the merits of sender callouts. Please keep the discord to yourselves and think twice. Most of you seem to have latched onto the sender callouts and focussed on that, nobody has commented on whether I s

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-25 Thread Dave Evans
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 02:50:22PM +, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote: > I use exim to receive and process my emails - have done for years. > I also use sender callouts - have done for years. Occasionally emails > get rejected because they are sent from non-existent addresses and

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread W B Hacker
Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Hello, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, (Thu Mar 24 15:50:22 2011): I use exim to receive and process my emails - have done for years. I also use sender callouts - have done for years. Occasionally emails get rejected because they are sent from non-existent a

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread Zoe (Medway Hosting)
- Original Message - From: "Marc Perkel" To: "Dave Restall - System Administrator,,," Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ? > Hi Dave, > > I understand your frustratio

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread Zoe (Medway Hosting)
- Original Message - From: "Heiko Schlittermann" To: Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ? > But as mentioned in the other answers, it's a quite "religious" issue Religion has

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hello, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, (Thu Mar 24 15:50:22 2011): > I use exim to receive and process my emails - have done for years. > I also use sender callouts - have done for years. Occasionally emails > get rejected because they are sent from non-existent addresses and sender > ca

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread Ted Cooper
On 25/03/11 00:50, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote: > What are the current RFC's regarding > good mail server etiquette ? Don't do sender callouts. It's abusive and causes more problems than it solves. I was the lucky recipient of several DDoS as a result of Joe Jobs at some very sma

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Hi Dave, I understand your frustrations dealing the the brain dead. What I do is have a text file with a list of domains not to verify and that solves the problem. You can also push sender verification down your list of tests so you do less of it. For example, I do my blacklist tests, whiteli

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:40 +, Drav Sloan wrote: > The simplest fix for this is exempt PlusNet from your callouts Indeed; I missed putting this paragraph in my message: The path of least resistance is to do as Plusnet suggest - whitelist their outbound mailhosts. You can still spam scan, but

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread Drav Sloan
Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote: > I use exim to receive and process my emails - have done for years. > I also use sender callouts - have done for years. Occasionally emails > get rejected because they are sent from non-existent addresses and sender > callouts don't like that. You'll

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 14:50 +, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote: > I use exim to receive and process my emails - have done for years. > I also use sender callouts - have done for years. Occasionally emails > get rejected because they are sent from non-existent addresses and sender

[exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, I use exim to receive and process my emails - have done for years. I also use sender callouts - have done for years. Occasionally emails get rejected because they are sent from non-existent addresses and sender callouts don't like that. Recently plusnet (www.plus.net) (an ISP !!!) sent me so