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Subject: Re: [2] how to bind smtp client to specific address?
From: Rafi Sadowsky (rafimeron.openu.ac.il)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 04:20:18 CST

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Michael Ju. Tokarev wrote:

> Mailing List Account wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for submitting to the list -- the receiver's mail host uses ORBS, so
> > I can't get mail to him directly. Not going to get into the whole issue of
> > ORBS abusive practices, I'll just handle it by posting to the list...
> >
> Just added your address to my access list.
> Usage of ORBS is now in a testing stage here -- I turned this on yesterday, to
> see what will happen.
> Abusive practices... Well, I know and agree (but this case, with above.net,
> is a bit different). But here, at Russia, usage of orbs/rbl/etc is not widely
> spread, and there are a tons, tons of spam that comes from open relays...
> I got about 30..100 messages per day from our Russian spammers, and from china
> sent by open relays, and since a few hosts using rbl, and a few people even
> considered that spam is not a good thing, our spammers can't be in rbl --
> just nobody wants to enter them to here... :(((
have you tried MAPS DUL&RSS instead of ORBS ???
 <http://www.mailabuse.org/>

        Rafi

> I reported about 50 hosts to rbl, and all of these are there, but I spent
> a lot of time writing to their postmasters, their isps etc etc, and I'm enouth
> with this. We pay about $300/month for just spam!
>
> Interesting that almost all of those hosts also is in orbs list, and this
> solves the problem -- now I have only 3 spams in my inbox instead of usual 60..200.
> And a lot of postfix's notifies :).
>
> This will be very good if ORBS will not filter legitimate mails... :)
>
>