RE: ISP outbound SMTP filtering

"Scott Weeks" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <[email protected]>

--- [email protected] wrote:
From: "Blake Pfankuch" <[email protected]>

> I have found only one legitimate use of a mail server on 
> a DHCP assigned address, so far, and I suspect there're 
> very, very few folks doing that.  So, block outbound 25 
> on DHCP ranges.

: Most higher end spam filtering services already flag dhcp 
: ranges as more likely to be spam.  When I first started 
: running my own mail server, it was a static in an area 
: according to the ip whois of a dhcp range.  I couldn't 
: send to anyone on rr.com or numberous other domains until 
: they fixed that.


A filter looking for legitimate port 25 connections would've found you, though.  First set up the filter/*nix program to look for "legitimate" email servers, then block on dynamic ranges and then move on from there.

scott
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