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RBL Features for SMTP
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2006-08-03 13:11:31
Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 14:31 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
>> Alex Hudson wrote:
>>> None of this is to say I particularly like RBLs
or greylisting. RBLs
>>> strike me as a particularly effective way of
pissing people off, 
>> It depends on what you keep on your RBLs - refusing
to accept mail from 
>> servers on dial-up addresses is a particularly good
use, IMHO.
> 
> Maybe for you. "Dial up" actually covers
static IPs and business DSL
> lines, which many people put SMTP servers on. I would
lose mail if I
> RBL'd on DUL.

I'm on a business SDSL line myself - if someone's on a
business xDSL 
line, and that someones provider has listed the range as
dial-up, well, 
time for a change of provider :-(

>>  > and I would never run them on a business
server,
>>
>> You don't even block open relays?
> 
> Nope.

Any reason why not? (just curious). The only public RBL I
use for 
straight rejection is relays.ordb.org - anything from a
dial-up address 
gets greylisted, as does lots of other cable and xDSL
addresses.


Per Jessen, Zurich.


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