Ajay Sharma wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:26 -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote:
Personally, I reject mail from any server with broken DNS. It's extremely low hanging fruit to avoid a lot of spam from zombie PCs in Asia/Eastern Europe.
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Is the above suitable for an office mail server or is this for one person who is less concerned about fringe stuff that may get rejected?
I run an "office" mail server and my boss would kill me if we bounced a message just because the client is using a brain dead ISP. So our approach is a little different in that we accept a lot of mail and I spend my time on tuning spamassassin.
Wow, then I guess I am lucky to have a boss that doesn't ask me to do foolish things or waste my time. 8-)
You can tune a spam filter til the cows come home, but I just think it's idiotic to accept mail from any server where the admin isn't on the ball enough to even properly set up the DNS. And if it's the ISP's fault, then that admin should pick a non-braindead ISP.
And the honourary Don Quixote award goes to......
Cheers,
C