On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:19:08 +0000 (BST), you wrote:
>The point of the RBL is to keep messages from black-listed hosts out of
>your machine. If you are using fetchmail, you have got the messages into
>your machine before you approach Exim. That kind of defeats the purpose
>of the RBL.
IBTD. The purpose of the RBL IMHO is to save the recipient the time to
wade through the spam. Personally, I don't care if the spam gets to my
local system as long it is thrown away or bounced there and I don't
have to see it.
>Having said that, I suppose if you were only going to use it
>in checking mode, there might be something to be said for looking at the
>Received headers. However, the "right" way to do this would be for the
>host from which you fetchmail to do the RBL checking and insert some
>kind of warning header for you to test, as Exim does if you run RBL
>checks in warning mode.
I agree with you on the "right" way. However, in the past, I have
tried to convince numerous ISPs to use the RBL, ORBS or DUL to
generate warning headers, but never succeeded. They are too afraid of
giving their responsibility away. It's obviously way too political.
Also, when you are using mail addresses from different domains with
different MX's, you'd have to convince all your MX operators to add
such headers. This is serious work :-(
Greetings
Marc
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