Re: {SPAM?} RE: {SPAM?} RE: [cobalt-users] SPAM? tagging on Cobalt RaQ4

[Robert Fitzpatrick <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 12:48, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:
> > Yeah, I see that a provider of a mail gateway seems to be on
> > ORDB. Funny, the gateway is provided as a Spam filtering and 
> > Anti-Virus gateway using Postfix on FreeBSD. If I comment out 
> > the 'Spam List = ORDB-RBL, relays.ordb.org' line in my 
> > mailscanner.conf file, do I have to restart sendmail to make 
> > it take affect? I want to do this until they get their server 
> > off ORDB.
> 
> Why would you want to do that? I don't accept mail from ORDB listed IPs.
> If you do that there is likely to be spam coming from there you won't
> properly tag. You should contact the IP owner and find out why they're
> running an open relay and if they closed it they should submit it for a
> retest to get it removed from ORDB.

I know the guy personally and he is working on it. He did run an
abuse.net test and everything came back 'relaying denied'. I'll try
disabling it and using 'mailscaner reload' and see if I get hit with a
bunch of spam. Can easily be turned back on since receiving this reload
info from a Mailscanner list.

-- 
Robert