Milter-greylist

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:29:45PM -0000, c.r.p. wrote:
> Which is why I'm interested in a man page that spells out that
> blacklist does not do DISCARDing , and that 
> it does not populate a table so that blacklisting a honeypot account
> will not do any real good.

Update to the man page are welcome...

> It would be nice if blacklisting would work similiar to greylisting so
> that it would populate the badSender table that greylisting does. As
> it is now, 'blacklisting' seems to really be an automatic REJECTer.

Is milter-greylist of any interst for that? Just forward mail sent to
the honneypot address to a program that perform the blacklisting 
operation. 

> as an aside - we got swamped with attempted spam last week and I
> happened to be checking our network firewall for something else when I
> noticed that the spammers were not using MX records. They were sending
>  mail to all our IP's port 25. Setting up the firewall to block any
> site that sent mail to an IP address that was not a mailserver lead to
> a massive decrease in spam traffic. 

Hey, don't block them, let them fill a blackhole: they'll waste CPU cycle
instead of moving to someone else"s server


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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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