Re: [cobalt-users] hosts.deny question

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Bob G7 wrote:

> I keep getting a bunch of emails from a spammer on one of my RaQ4 email
> accounts.
> 
> I added this to my hosts.deny:
> 
> in proftpd : .optinllc.com
> 
> Should I have put this somewhere else instead?

Unless you thought he was going to upload files or something
that's not going to help much...

look in the email paramaters section in the control panel for a place
to add domains to refuse email from

IP works better btw, eg 64.251.20.


> But when you hit the link, it's dead.

Of course not, if you unsubscribe, they will have to scrape your email
address again ;P

> I tried adding a rule to outlook, but they keep changing the prefix name so
> the rule wont catch it.

That's why blocking by domain name doesn't work all that well, use IP
addresses, then it doesn't matter what they call the server...

If you want to do it manually, you can edit /etc/mail/access

64.251.20.<tab>550 Refused - spam

(Anything you want after, the number, but it helps if it makes sense to
the person reading it just in case)

You may want to list more, many of us believe infolink is hosting spammers
on purpose ;P

Infolink Communication Services,
Inc. (NETBLK-INFOLINK-BLK-100) INFOLINK-BLK-100
64.251.0.0 - 64.251.31.255

gsh