Re: SMTP greylisting (was Re: Teergrube for VMS ?)

From: Alan Winston - SSRL Admin Cmptg Mgr (winston_at_SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU)
Date: 07/31/03

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    In article <Z3XVa.43$Hx3.48739@news.uswest.net>, "Carlc Internet Services" <cc@nospamming-to-carlc.com> writes:
    >"Nic Clews" <sendspamhere@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
    >news:bg8c2b$733$1@lore.csc.com...
    >> Dean Woodward wrote:
    >> >
    >> > My ISP recently installed a greylist setup, and spam on that account
    >> > dropped roughly 95% immediately.
    >> >
    >> > See http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/ for more info
    >>
    >> Interesting.
    >>
    >> I can't see it working on my system because the delivery system IP
    >> address is always one of the mail servers at my ISP. It would have to be
    >> implemented by my ISP on their mail servers.
    >>
    >> My home system and email could only be switched on at several day
    >> intervals. That 15 minute urgent message could wait around on a delivery
    >> queue for 7 days...
    >>
    >> I've asked Demon before about this type of thing, they don't even use
    >> RBL's :-(
    >
    >
    >Time to get a new ISP...
    >
    >As an ISP provider, I've setup email servers with RBL and reverse DNS
    >checking.
    >I wish the OpenVMS systems could do this as well, instead, I just use them
    >for relaying of known IP addresses, denying all other relays. I guess as one
    >of the very few OpenVMS ISPs, we have to use a good combo of products
    >to get everything to play 24x7 style of what were use to on OpenVMS.

    If you ran PMDF on your VMS servers, you could do the RBL and reverse DNS
    stuff.

    (I can't on my PMDF-running systems because I'm inside SLAC's firewall and
    all mail is handed to me by SLAC's gateway system, but the capability is
    there.)

    -- Alan 

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