Re: [Exim] Dnslists lookups not always working

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Author: Juha Saarinen
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To: Suresh Ramasubramanian
CC: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] Dnslists lookups not always working
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> Two or three reasons -
>
> # Spam coming through your backup MX (if any) - I notice saarinen.org
> doesn't have one ...


No, gave up on the backup MX for that reason.

> # Spam coming from elsewhere (not all nigerian crap comes from nigeria or
> yahoo - I terminate about a hundred or two of these moron's accounts every day)


Nope, this one definitively came from Siotel in Nigeria.

> # DNSBL lookup latency - stuff like djb's rbldns
> (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/rbldns.html) should help.


This could be the reason though. I suppose there's a time-out for the
DNSBL lookup... Philip?


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Juha Saarinen