Re: adns & ask

Marco Paganini <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:46:28 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.active-spam-killer.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gour,

Interesting... Looks like ADNS is not installed in the Python path. Can
you try:

$ python

and then

import adns

To see what happens?

Regards,
Paga

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:35:04PM +0100, Gour wrote:
> Marco Paganini ([email protected]) wrote:
> 
> > It's supposed to work with adns. 
> 
> I installed adns on the server.
> 
> > Well, in the worst case, you won't have the SMTP validation, but the
> > challenge mechanism should still work.
> 
> Here is the snippet from the log file:
> 
> [...]
> 2005/01/24 16:30:36 [14223]:   smtp_validate: Cannot import DNS class.
> Trying AD
> NS...
> 2005/01/24 16:30:36 [14223]:   smtp_validate: Cannot import ADNS class.
> Feature
> disabled.
> 2005/01/24 16:30:36 [14223]:   SMTP validation could not determine that
> sender is invalid.
> 2005/01/24 16:30:36 [14223]: Sending confirmation.
> [...]
> 
> Is it OK?
> 
> I'd like to know before enabling validation globally.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Gour
> 
> > 
> > > Any new feature regarding email validation in the upcoming a-s-k?
> > 
> > There is not much else that can be done to validate remote emails, except for
> > what ASK already does: To send a challenge. The SMTP validation feature works
> > in *some* cases, but I've had some reports of people being "blacklisted"
> > because paranoia is widespread, and certain sysadmins think the "probe" used
> > by ASK is some kind of spambot.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Paga
> > 
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