RE: Sorbs.net DNS Blacklist

["Jason Williams" <jwilliams () courtesymortgage com>]

> The "proper" way to deal with this is to reject during the smtp
conversation, that way your mailserver will not generate the bounce
message and get stuck >in a blacklist.
> <http://spamlinks.net/prevent-secure-backscatter.htm>


Very interesting. I did not know the ramifications that can occur from
backscatter. I appreciate the link.


> Backscatter is bad, I hope you can find a way to fix your problem The
link explains it better than I can
>

Let me explain what I did, to make sure I don't contribute to the
problem.

I run a mailgateway, with Postfix, MailScanner and a couple of virus
scanners, plus spamassasin and other goodies.

I wrote a perl script that basically queries my domain controller and
pulls a list of legit employees who have email addresses. It updates the
file as needed (similar to what is posted above, but my setup is a
little different, so I needed to adjust it accordingly.) After that,
postmap the file, reload postfix, wallla. (Cron job runs nightly)

So as of 9:00am PST time, I have a relay_recipient list with only valid
users to accept email for. Anything that comes in with a non-legit email
address, gets rejected with a message explaining that the user is not a
valid email user.

Is that the correct way to do this? Any other caveats I should be aware
of?

Thanks



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