Re: [exim] Emailreg.org - have you seen this?

Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>
>> From what I understand of it - they also require a working abuse
>> contact email. The idea being that you're not just anyone that can put
>> together an SPF record and maybe paying some sort of fee makes you more
>> "real" than SPF. Anyhow - rather than signing up right away I was
>> thinking about testing the list as a list user and see how white it
>> really is. And if it's from Barracuda maybe it's already populated with
>> good data.
>>
>> I haven't found SPF useful for white listing. I've seen spammers with
>> good SPF. If I were a spammer I'd have good SPF.
>>
>> Ultimately what I think makes the best white list is a list of domains
>> whose FCrDNS is a host in the list. And the list of domains is based on
>> reputation.
>>
>> Andhow - my real question is - how to put together the query in Exim
>> where the query is:
>>
>> <hostname>.<ip reversed>.<listname>
>>
>> How do you do that?
>>
>
> You've been using Exim for so long now that you should be able to do
> this in your sleep.
>
> dnslists = x/hostname
>
> Where "hostname" is the acl variable representing the appropriate domain
> name to look up, and "x" is constructed from the connecting ip with its
> octets reversed using one of the relevant expansions, appended with a
> full stop and the lookup domain.
>
> If you want the complete config snippet, I'm happy to sell you it.
>
> Mike
>
>

For what it's worth the service appears to be down. Not a good first
impression.