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Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail
From: Tony Rall <trall () almaden ibm com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:39:01 -0700
On Tuesday, 2003-10-21 at 17:24 AST, Jeff Wasilko <jeffw () smoe org> wrote:
----- Forwarded message ----- What AT&T is asking is for you to help AT&T to restrict incoming mail to just our known and trusted sources (e.g., business partners, clients and customers). Therefore, we need to know which IP address(es) are used by your outbound e-mail service so we can selectively permit them. Please send this information to the following e-mail address (rm-antiattspam () ems att com). ----- Original Message (Sent Monday, 10/20/03) ----- AT&T has an urgent situation with our anti-spam list. In order to continue to allow email to AT&T you need to provide the IP addresses of all your outbound email gateways. If you do not respond immediately, your access may not continue. The required information should be sent to rm-antiattspam () ems att com. ----- End forwarded message -----
It sure looks to me that they are referring to outbound (from the customer, through AT&T, to the Internet) mail only. Presumably this means they are going to either block all 25/tcp from their customers except from those addresses on their list. Alternatively they might be routing all outbound customer mail from non-whitelisted machines through a transparent proxy; possibly the proxy would rate limit the amount of mail being allowed. Tony Rall
Current thread:
- Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Jeff Wasilko (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Marshall Eubanks (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Tony Rall (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Mike Tancsa (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Marshall Eubanks (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Brian Bruns (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Marshall Eubanks (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Crist Clark (Oct 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Jamie Reid (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Steve Bellovin (Oct 22)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Kee Hinckley (Oct 22)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Steven M. Bellovin (Oct 22)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Sean Donelan (Oct 22)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS (Oct 22)
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