Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:57:08PM -0000, c.r.p. wrote:
> > i found a mention of blacklist in greylist.conf(5) but that was it.
> 
> You can configure milter-greylist to permanently reject messages.
Example:
> 
> acl blacklist addr 192.0.2.0/24 msg "go away, you naughty spam punk!"
> 
> -- 
> Emmanuel Dreyfus
> manu@...
>
Which is why I'm interested in a man page that spells out that
blacklist does not do DISCARDing , and that 
it does not populate a table so that blacklisting a honeypot account
will not do any real good.

It would be nice if blacklisting would work similiar to greylisting so
that it would populate the badSender table that greylisting does. As
it is now, 'blacklisting' seems to really be an automatic REJECTer.


as an aside - we got swamped with attempted spam last week and I
happened to be checking our network firewall for something else when I
noticed that the spammers were not using MX records. They were sending
 mail to all our IP's port 25. Setting up the firewall to block any
site that sent mail to an IP address that was not a mailserver lead to
a massive decrease in spam traffic. 
It would be nice if blacklist had an option that could populate an
iptable chain or access file or send the offending ip address to a
public SpamHaus type list.