+1

Dick

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 21:03, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Tracy wrote:
> 
> > FCrDNS: Take the connecting IP address, retrieve all PTR records (hopefully 
> > only one, but possible to get more). Then take the PTR record(s) and do A 
> > lookup on it. Compare the connecting IP address to the A records returned - 
> > if no match, either the DNS for the connecting IP has been 
> > misconfigured/corrupted, or it's being forged by a spammer. (Of course, 
> > this assumes that RDNS is in place for all connecting IP addresses - a 
> > policy I have implemented for my server anyway.)
> > 
> > RCfDNS: Take the HELO/HELO name, retrieve all A records. Starting with the 
> > first returned A record, do PTR lookup. If HELO/EHLO matched PTR found for 
> > any A record, assume valid, otherwise reject as misconfigured/corrupt DNS 
> > or forgery.
> > 
> > The RCfDNS is going to be expensive, due to the possible number of lookups 
> > and the string comparisons,so it may not be worth the expense. However the 
> > FCrDNS I definitely want to implement.
> > 
> > I don't know if you would be interested in this kind of code or not for 
> > inclusion in a future version - if so (and you can stand my poor coding 
> > skills :) I'd be happy to share once I have something working...
> 
> Nope. But I was thinking that XMail could have a special filter call right 
> before sending the response to the DATA command. A file with all the info 
> (IPs, sender, recipients, etc..) will be passed to the filter, that in 
> turn can reject by returning certain error codes. So this stuff can be 
> done with filters. How do you like it?
> 
> 
> 
> - Davide
> 
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