spam issues

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:41:31PM -0600, collins wrote:
>Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>
>>I'm not sure how it works with other MTA's, but my Sendmail servers all
>>include information on which BL they were blocked by and a URL to visit in
>>order to get removed when their system is fixed.

Postfix makes it easy to allow mail for certain addresses to come in before
doing any RBL checking.  We accept all mail to our major role accounts,
postmaster, abuse, hostname, and support, so that we can get reports about
blocking problems.

>>
>Yeah, except that I'm the one having his mail blocked and I have no way 
>to fixed the system.

No way?  We provide uucp over TCP connections to quite a few cable
customers which allows them to send/receive mail without worrying about
their provider's blocking policies on port 25.  So far I haven't seen a
broadband provider who even knows about the uucp ports, much less blocks
them.  This has a secondary benefit in that the customer's e-mail doesn't
have anything to do with the provider's system so none of our cable
customers have had to change anything on their e-mail through the @HOME to
ATTBI, to COMCAST transitions.

Bill
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