Yahoo Groups archive

Milter-greylist

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 23:32 UTC

Message

Re: Handling mail farms (was Re: [milter-greylist] planned features, call for volunteers)

2006-12-24 by manu@netbsd.org

Joel Reicher <joel@...> wrote:

> > racl whitelist spf
> 
> I'm not sure if this has already been dealt with, but the mechanisms
> in 3.0 for dealing with mail farms by whitelisting them, be it based
> on IP or SPF, seems a misfeature to me. There's no guarantee that just
> because mail comes from a farm that it is not spam, and in fact
> there's a good chance that an SPF-compliant source is not well-behaved...

The point about having SPF as an ACL clause is that you can use it with
other clauses. You could decide to trust SPF for mail coming from a set
of IP netblocks, for instance.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@...

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.