[Xitami] Xitami and PHP (fwd)

[corwin]

I would like to suggest your get your email servers to looks a 3rd party for a db of blocked servers.

Last week I turned my email servers to www.spamhaus.org for checking.  I can say my smtp traffic is down by almost 80%.  My clients are very happy with the results.



> There are many different spam stopping software's on the market and several
> that request you return a coded reply so that your email is accepted but
> more than likely he is able to put in accepted domains so that they
> shouldn't happen. I used one for a bit but not on this account and have
> since started using something else. Unfortunately with the amount of spam
> the flows on the internet people are starting to take desperate actions in
> order to stop it. I just returned from being gone for a week and had over
> 1000 messages with maybe less than 100 actual good messages. The ratio of
> email to spam is growing at an alarming rate. So don't come done on folks
> trying to get a handle on their email.
> 
> No need to reply, I get off my soapbox now.
> 
> Ron
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
> [mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Brian {Hamilton
> Kelly}
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 12:01 PM
> To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
> Subject: Re: Re: [Xitami] Xitami and PHP (fwd)
> 
> 
> Has anyone else seen this sort of stupidity when they post articles to
> the list?  Quite frankly, I'm not going to play games with idiots who
> so badly/sadly misconfigure their anti-spam measures that a post through
> a mailing list becomes a false positive.  Especially, I'm not going to
> visit a web-site which might just be a mechanism for harvesting known-
> to-be-working e-mail addresses, perhaps even without the knowledge of
> this mailing list subscriber.
> 
> If others have had such nonsensical "rejections" then perhaps the list
> owner needs to have a quiet little word in the earhole of Erv.
> 
> Forwarded message follows:
> 
> > To: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk>
> > Subject: Re: Re: [Xitami] Xitami and PHP
> > From: Spam Interceptor <devnull@si20.com>
> > Message-Id: <E1BExa3-0004Pc-00@optimus>
> > Sender: Spam Interceptor <siweb@solidblue.biz>
> > Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:42:31 -0400
> >
> > Dear Brian {Hamilton Kelly},
> >
> > This is Erv Kosch. I am running Spam Interceptor to block spam email and
> viruses. Please follow this link to verify that the message you sent is not
> spam email.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://si20.com/auth?uid=xxxx&mid=xxx&sid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> [I've obfuscated the details in the above that were personalized to
> myself.]
> 
> >
> > Your email was intercepted because it got a spam rating of 5.4 and I set
> Spam Interceptor to ask everyone who sends me a message rated over 2 to
> authenticate. When you authenticate I'll receive your email and you'll never
> have to authenticate for me again, no matter what spam rating your emails
> get.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Erv Kosch
> 
> [snip]
> 
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>    shortcomings of Windows 98 SE".
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