[plug] Blacklisted mail server?

[Daniel Foote]

On 5/5/06, Ben Jensz <plug at jensz.id.au> wrote:
> To quote Wietse - "Junk mail is war, RFC's do not apply".
>
> It can be useful to drop known "bad" client IPs before they get to the
> actual SMTP service, as then it uses less resources on your mail server
> systems as you don't have the overhead of having used up one available
> SMTP connection to a host that you're only going to tell to sod off
> anyway.  Considerations such as this do come into play when you're
> dealing with large volumes of email like ISP's do.
>
> That said, there have been issues with the Sorb's DUL list during the
> last week, which have lead to ranges being incorrectly listed.  So
> actively giving a reject response (rather than just dropping the
> connection outright) does at least give the sending client an indication
> as to what is wrong.
>
>
> / Ben

Ironic: Gmail classified this email that you sent as spam.

Daniel Foote.