[Xitami] Xitami and PHP (fwd)

[Johannes Prost]

I would never run a mailserver without pointing to realtime blacklist servers. I'm using actually 3 
blacklist's. Here is one of the bigger one's too, Http://ordb.org  

Am 18 Apr 2004 um 20:31 hat corwin geschrieben:

> 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]
> > 
> > --
> >    fix (vb.): 1. to paper over, obscure, hide from public view; 2. to
> >    work around, in a way that produces unintended consequences that are
> >    worse than the original problem.  Usage: "Windows ME fixes many of the
> >    shortcomings of Windows 98 SE".
> > 
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> 
> Corwin
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