Re: [exim] Fighting DEA providers

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Author: Mike Cardwell
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Fighting DEA providers
* on the Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 06:13:11PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:

> We have a subscription service where users can sign up and receive
> free access, prior to having to subscribe. Allot of users, are
> signing up with DEA based email addresses, thus gaining access and
> more than a single free trial - which is far from ideal for us.
>
> Is there any specific MTA way of dealing with DAE providers? For one,
> that I have thought about, is that I can inject email into Exim using
> a specific router. Is there a way to tell the router to queue the
> mail for a random period of time prior to delivering it? Most DAE
> addresses will for example only be active for a short period of time,
> thus using a delay, can cause the email to bounce.
>
> Is there perhaps any other, better, more intelligent ways of dealing
> with DAE? A RBL of sorts? We have a database of some 400 odd domains
> currently, and it's growing nicely but I'd prefer to be pro-active
> about this and block before we have to 'manually' add it to a
> database.


First of all, do you mean "DAE" or "DEA". You've used both multiple
times... Secondly, what does it stand for?

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