Re: [cobalt-users] reconfig sendmail voids warranty?

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 12:00  PM, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:
> > FWIW, since I posted that original message nearly a year ago,
> > our spam
> > count has gone up significantly - I'm averaging in the high
> > 400s over the
> > last few weeks. :-( See
> > <http://bluebird.sinauer.com/~morse/spam_chart.htm>
> >   for the
>
> So, was the bouncing contractor a spammer or running an open relay
> blocked by Spamcop?

Not malicious, just stupid and somewhat pigheaded. They're relaying their 
mail through an ISP which got blocked by Spamcop for whatever reason. See 
<http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=64.65.215.24> - they're on 
and off all the time. My best guess is that they're an exploitable relay, 
if not out-and-out open, but suggesting to the contractor that they run 
their own SMTP server to avoid the problem just got me a nastygram - if we'
re blocking their mail, the problem must be on MY end. And I'm not the one 
who makes the decisions on working with them. :-(

I'm pretty certain that bl.spamcop.net would be stopping a pretty good 
percentage of the spew that's still getting through; I think they're 
quicker at responding to ongoing spam runs, and we seem to just get the 
same three or four spams over and over. If I could figure out how to 
blanket-whitelist this one thickheaded contractor and then use bl.spamcop.
net, I would.

YMMV, of course.

pjm