Re: [exim] How best to blackhole e-mails

--On 30 October 2007 14:55:03 +0000 paul.mcilfatrick@??? wrote:

>>> At present our Exim config does a lot of checking (btw this local mail
>>> server is behind our company firewall and we are unable to use verify =
>>> sender and verify = sender/callout as they are blocked)
>
>> You should be able to do verify=sender, since that's only using DNS.
>
> Probably, but I was asked to switch it off by our company network people
> because of the traffic it generated.

So, they prefer the spam?!

Did you explain that a good proportion of the DNS request will result in a
reduction of traffic? If they let you do callouts, about 60% of them could
result in your being able to reject before you see the message body and
headers?

>
>
>> What are you running on the edge server? You should be doing your spam
>> and virus filtering there, in Exim ACLs if you can.
>
> Don't know as I have absolutely no control over them - they are black
> boxes to us. I think it safe to say that they are not running Exim.
>
> BTW it was one of the people who manages these edge servers that
> suggested we drop our local domain and create a new one so that their
> edge servers could be then be set up to block the old domain.

Nutters! Name and shame them!

>
> Paul McIlfatrick



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Ian Eiloart
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