Re: [cobalt-users] Blocking email

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Wayne Sagar" <shortfork@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Control Panel, Email Server, Reject the Following.  Then add '.cw' and
> >'.tw'
>
> Steve,
>
> Does this really work?

No, but just because I was going from memory and made a minor mistake.  The
"." should not be included.  They should be entered as "cw" and "tw".  Then
it will work.

> I've added TLD's for korea and china before and
> continue to get spam relayed from their ip blocks.

IP blocks are a different story.  Adding their top-level domains blocks
email with a from address that has those top-level domains.  The GUI is just
matching the end of email addresses in the From header for email as its
received.  So you can add complete email addresses, hosts, or top-level
domains.  If you want to block IPs for China and Taiwan you would need to
add all of their subnets.  I think someone posted a bunch of the subnets on
one of the Cobalt lists once and you should be able to dig them up using
google.com if you're persistent.  Hope that clarifies things.

> There was a discussion
> here a while ago that indicated this didn't work and it's been my
experience
> that it does not work. Would be nice if it did tho..

Yes, it would be nice if you could just type in "cw" and it did some magic
and blocked anything originating in China...assuming you don't mind getting
no email from China.  <g>

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