Re: [exim] DNS Blacklists and relayed messages

Guiliano,

Thanks for the info.

I can't very well abandon this email address - I've had it for over 10
years, and get a lot of "good" mail through it, even though I've moved
most of my subscriptions over to my new ID.

However, I hadn't thought about the bouncing problem - you're correct, I
don't want to do that.

So, I guess I'll have to receive the message then throw it away?

Jerry

Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:

> At 4:29 pm -0400 2004/09/03, Jerry wrote:
> [...]
>
>> However, my attglobal.net id gets most of the SPAM. It is set to
>> forward to my "real" email address, where I'm running exim. It looks
>> like this forward is interfering with the DNS blacklists.
>>
>> Is there any way to detect in the ACL's who originated the message?
>>
>> Eventually I would like to deny the messages (I'm currently the only
>> user - and any other users would be my employees) based on the
>> originating IP instead of the relaying one?
>
>
> if you start denying then the attglobal.net server will generate
> bounces, most of which will be collateral spam, as the sender address
> will be probably forged. Either you abandon the forwarding service and
> address and deal with your mail yourself, or you should not deny
> messages that have been forwarded. The only exception is denying based
> on unroutable sender address, as this should by definition not generate
> deliverable bounces (you can even do sender callouts if you like).
>
> Giuliano
>
>