On 2/18/04 at 15:30, Paul List Hess wrote:
> At 2:36 PM -0800 2/10/04, Global Homes Webmaster wrote:
> >The amount of spam getting through my defenses decreased
> >dramatically when I added dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net to my RBL server list.
> >Unfortunately, I started to get some reports of false positives from
> >my users so I removed it and the false positives seem to have gone
> >away (at least I haven't gotten any reports since removing
> >dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net). I couldn't get anyone to send me any relevant
> >bounce messages or even enough information to find rejected messages
> >in my logs, though, so I'm still a little skeptical that SORBS was
> >really to blame.
>
> Interesting. I just got a "positive" report that I tracked down to
> dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net. I am not sure they received a bounce message
> either but my SIMS log shows the bounce. Normally I just assume they
> don't see the bounce or delete it without recognizing it, maybe it
> hits their junk filter for instance.
I'm sure that my SIMS server probably logged any rejections that may have
occured and sent appropriate bounces, but I couldn't get anyone to give me
a narrow enough time frame to know where in the logs to look. My users tend
to just say something like, 'Uh, my mail's broke.' Their correspondents are
usually real estate agents, so there's even less help there...
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Christopher Bort | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmaster, Global Homes | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://www.globalhomes.com/>
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