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Re: [milter-greylist] How To Whitelist a Dynamic IP Sender?

2008-02-28 by shuttlebox

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Bob Smith <bsmith@...> wrote:
>  I was thinking of something like
>
>  racl whitelist dns foo.dynip.com lookup 3h
>
>  to ease the load.  The actual IP address which corresponds to
>  foo.dynip.com changes only when my home machine reboots and thus
>  acquires another dynamic IP address.  This is uncommon enough that a
>  check on every incoming message is way too drastic.
>
>  Is this design reasonable, or would you suggest something else?

Why don't you just whitelist your sender address?

racl whitelist from bob@...

Sure, your address can be faked by a spammer but greylisting is just
your first defense, right?

-- 
/peter

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