Re: [Exim] I dont want to use smarthosts.

Am Tue, 26 June 2001 schrieb Suresh Ramasubramanian:

> gdj_list@??? [exim-users] <26/06/01 12:19 +0100>:
> > And they must be spammers because they are using direct to MX mail
> > delivery on a dialup.
>
> Dude, the only people I have seen delivering mail direct to MX so far are
>
> 1. Spammers (how do I know? well, they try to deliver to one bogus account
> after another, they have email addresses like hot-sexy-babe@??? or
> maybe 436sdgr4@??? ...)

But your filtering is not based on that, it is based on different criteria entirely - that it comes from one of some dynamic ip blocks.

> 2. Geeks with *nix boxes on dialups
>
> Till date, the spammers seem to outnumber the geeks by a rather large
> majority.

And?

What you mean is "I am prepared to not accept valid email because
spammers also use that method of sending email."