Author: will Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Blocking spam
Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 15:03, Alex wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>I've migrated to Exim from sendmail, but forced a
>>problem:
>>how to block the messages, received from hosts which
>>are not the MX of the domain, ther IP belongs to?
>>(this was realised in my previous configuration to
>>block spammers)
>
> Why are people convinced that this is any use whatsoever in cutting down
> spam (well it will work in that it will reject a whole pile of your
> incoming mail, but it is not a spam marker)?
Quite, you may as well /dev/null every other email. If over 50% of all
email is spam, you delete mostly spam ;)
