[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       qmail
Subject:    Re: more spam blocked than thought
From:       Charles Cazabon <qmail () discworld ! dyndns ! org>
Date:       2003-02-27 19:18:09
[Download RAW message or body]

mw-list-qmail@csi.hu <mw-list-qmail@csi.hu> wrote:
> > 
> > > Indeed.  At about nine days of use and over four thousand messages
> > > received in my personal domain, the mfcheck MX/A validation has caught
> > > precisely zero messages.
>
> > I can't fend off the impression you're trying to oppose the patch
> > although it works well for others.
> 
> Of course, Charles might be using RBL and many of the spam messages
> discarded by RBL might have had bad envelope sender addresses.

I only use a small personal RBL.  It blocks one or two messages per week on
average.

> In my case, on this particular server I am using RBL, and in the last
> 4 days, I had 21 messages with nonexistent domains in the envelope
> sender address.  There were 38 thousand+ messages sent to the server.
> 19 out of the 21 messages were the big@boss.com virus.  One message
> caused a doblebounce which informed about the new name for a
> discontinued domain name.

So in your case, mfcheck would have rejected one message (out of 38,000) which
would not have been rejected for other reasons or which were valid messages?

> What are your numbers?

Don't expect hard data from him :).

Charles
-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Charles Cazabon                                <qmail@discworld.dyndns.org>
GPL'ed software available at:         http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/
Read http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/writings/12-steps-to-qmail-list-bliss.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]