Re: RETURNED EMAIL
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:27:45AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:48:25AM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > Hi Alfred!
> >
> > You wrote:
> >
> > > > And could someone please submit the develop.nmdg.com server to as many
> > > > RBL lists as you can ??
> > > > The webform they have is even worse than formmail.pl.
> > >
> > > A simpler solution is just to ignore it.
> >
> > So, I presume that you don't get any spam?
>
> Yes, we all get it, but RBLs are not a good solution, either.
>
> Leaving the power of blocking your server on the hands of other people
> is a Bad Thing (tm).
>
> As an example, last week the CS department at the Helsinki University was
> rejecting all mails coming from the Helsinki Univ. of Techn. because
> they were trusting RBLs as the only method of rejecting suspicious mail.
The mailserver at the uni here checks the RBL's and adds a
'X-Would-Be-Blocked-By:'-header, so users can do whatever they want with it
in their .procmailrc, for example. Pretty neat, imho. I save
would-be-blocked mails to a seperate mailbox, and it hasn't got it wrong
as yet.
Arnout
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