Re: [exim] anti-spam... what's next?

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Author: Adam Stephens
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To: exim users
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Subject: Re: [exim] anti-spam... what's next?
Gordon Dickens wrote:
> Am I the only one that questions how safe that this is? You are liable
> to catch ham. For instance, I know several email account owners with
> large ISPs such as hotmail that use other smtp servers for sending mail
> and all that would be rejected too. I like this idea but am afraid it
> may be a bit too aggressive. Thoughts?
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I certainly wouldn't block on it outright like this. We see forwarded
mail with hotmail senders, and mailing list mail, and mail from ebay's
mail servers, and apparently legitimate mail sent via other ISPs, all of
which would be rejected by this rule.

We do, however, have spamassassin rules which assign points for this -
and similar rules for gmail and yahoo.

Adam.

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Adam Stephens
Network Specialist - Email & DNS
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>> Unrouteable address            2020
>> Fake Yahoo                37967
>> Fake hotmail                84105
>> Fake MSN                8
>> Fake AOL                872
>> host is listed in zen.spamhaus.org    32268
>> Blacklisted URL in message        1397
>> Sender verify fail            298
>> Spamassassin reject            545
>> Spamassassin warn            20521

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>>
>> deny message = Faked hotmail, so you must be spam.
>>            log_message = Fake hotmail
>>            senders = *@hotmail.com
>>            condition = ${if match {$sender_host_name} \
>>             {\Nhotmail.com$\N}{no}{yes}}

>>
>> Think I got the above from the exim wiki, its been very effective for
>> me.
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