Re: To email or not to email...

Agreed, and a number of AA solutions block the SMTP at the connect, long
before a MailFrom or RcptTo ever shows up, others block it before it even
gets to the MTA, by programming the firewall or load balancer to not even
pass the TCP connect through. In all of these cases, the result is the same,
the abuser can't report abuse via the normal SMTP mechanisms using the Mx
record.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 12:31 AM
> To: Bruce Brown
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: To email or not to email...
> 
> Bruce Brown wrote:
> > Well, it better be a different domain, less the load-balancer, which has
> > been programmed to block the connection from the IP won't let the abuse
> > report in.
> 
> Per user smtp whitelists like this typically get implemented by
> implementing whatever 5xx error you issue at RCPT TO, not at connect, or
> at mail from:
> 
> 	srs