From: Klaus A. S. <kse...@gm...> - 2005-05-17 07:29:14
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On 17/05/05, Michel Bouissou <mi...@bo...> wrote: >> Then a culprit will be able to prevent legitimate email originating from >> the same IP address, won't he? >=20 > This won't happen if the considered IP only hosts one machine which is a > "normal" mailserver which retries all the messages that it has in queue. >=20 > This could possibly happen if this IP has a NATted LAN behind it, hosting > both a legitimate mailserver and spam/virus sources, in which case it is > this network's admin job to make sure that his network doesn't pollute th= e > whole earth with junk. Even in this situation, already known "good" > addresses that have already made it to from_awl or domain_awl wouldn't be > blocked, only new connections. It could happen if the Good Sender and the Evil Sender are both using the mail gateway of the same ISP. And if Good Sender is not already in *_awl his mail could be blocked by Evil Sender's DoS'ing. I would like to be able to disable the feature in SQLgrey's config file. --=20 Klaus Alexander Seistrup Magnetic Ink =B7 Copenhagen =B7 Denmark http://magnetic-ink.dk/ |