Autor: Walt Reed Datum: To: David Woodhouse CC: Exim Mailing List Betreff: Re: [Exim] localhost as SMTP server again: Dynamic IP adresses being blocked
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:02:44AM +0000, David Woodhouse said: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:54 +0100, Toralf Lund wrote:
> > There is of course a different, perhaps more serious, problem with using
> > localhost as SMTP server setting in the MUA (see previous thread): It
> > could mean that dynamically assigned IP addresses are listed in
> > Received, and some receiver's don't like that; they block all messages
> > from addresses in dynamic ranges, at least if they belong to a major ISP.
>
> That would just be bizarrely broken. Block mail coming _directly_ from
> dynamic IP ranges rather than through the ISP's smarthosts, perhaps --
> but to block mail just because it happened to originate at a dynamic IP
> is insane.
As I mentioned in another email, SpamAssassin currently does this. Yes,
it's frustrating to no end.
