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Re: Blocking mail from a list of IP Addresses

From: /dev/rob0 (rob0gmx.co.uk)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 11:37:14 CST


On Tuesday 2005-November-15 23:57, Ron Wheeler wrote:
> > Ron Wheeler a écrit :
> >> Does anyone have a list of IP addresses used by the major spam
> >> houses. I would like to block them at the firewall to reduce the
> >> total mount of traffic.
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> I was thinking of giving them a place to send an e-mail through our
> www site if they can not get through to us otherwise.

Pardon me if I am misunderstanding something, but if you are blocking
these hosts at the firewall, how will they get to your HTTP server? If
you're only blocking SMTP, there is little benefit in that approach
over reject_rbl_client.
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