Re: [exim] UCEPROTECT Blacklists and why callouts are abusiv…

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Author: David Saez Padros
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To: Andrew - Supernews
CC: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] UCEPROTECT Blacklists and why callouts are abusive
Hi !!

> David> well, i had to say that we reject more than 99.99% of the
> David> connections received
>
> If you get any real mail at all, then that is nonsense


this is just a way to tell that we are continuosly rejecting mails
(from 300k to 1M per day) while we get only a residual number of
good emails

> and you'll have had more than that many just from
> today's traffic on exim-users.


well, today is a busy day in the list

> David> but this does not mean that all of them are callouts.
>
> As I keep saying, if you're rejecting them at RCPT time, callouts,
> bounce blowback and C/R are not distinguishable.


so you are complaining that callouts are abuse but you don't even
know how many do you receive ?

> David> How many of this 90-95% of blowback uses a null sender
> David> envelope ??
>
> Those are connections meeting the following criteria:
>
> 1) they got as far as RCPT TO
> 2) they had a null sender envelope, or one recognisably generated by a
> C/R or callout system


how many have null envelope sender ?? this is very strange as we
rarely see any mail being rejected having a null envelope sender

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