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Re: AOL's impatient servers

2004-06-28 07:42:54
I haven't checked my logs, but I know plenty of qpsmtpd users find
this to be one of the single most successful spam/virus filters.

It's amazingly effective, especially if coupled with a longer delay for
hosts
that are on a spam blacklist.  I delay hosts that are on a few dynamic IP
and
spam blacklists, or that have no reverse DNS, for 40 seconds before the
220
greeting.  Any RFC-compliant mailer will have no problem with this, but a
lot
of spam software starts blissfully sending away before the delay is up.
Those
connections are sent a 5xx response and dropped.

Since most probably some spammers are members of this mailing list, I would
not disclose here too many tips how to block spam.

Roger