You are obviously on top of the situation, Craig. It sounds like you have a
first class system going there. I just wish all sysadmins would take the
time to plan that well!
The only reason I replied to your message was to point out this "gotcha" that can happen if you use a challenge/response system. My message and your reply will end up in the archives where hopefully other admins will discover the information.
Thanks Barry, I was a little nervous when I implemented it, but I have to say that I am real proud of my mail server, small though it may be. We only have it serving 18 email addresses, for a total of about 16K (16,000) emails a month where about 99% of all the spam gets caught and quarantined. (about 20% of the 16,000 is spam)
Your comment above regarding sysadmins is the number one reason why I moved away from using RBL's directly with Sendmail and into implementing the solution I mentioned earlier. We were getting more and more false positives popping up, and a little investigation proved that in most instances, it was because the RBL maintainer was blacklisting entire netblocks as opposed to using only offending IP's (with seemingly total disregard.)
Craig D. -- --
Craig Daters (craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Systems Administrator West Press Printing 1663 West Grant Road Tucson, Arizona 85745-1433
Tel: 520-624-4939 Fax: 520-624-2715
www.westpress.com
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