[AccessD] OT: email

There is ZERO connection between a web page url and any email server. True,
often people have their mail server using the same base name as their WWW
server, but there is no requirement to do so.

Lambert

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jcolby at colbyconsulting.com [SMTP:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 16, 2003 5:10 PM
> To:	AccessD
> Subject:	[AccessD] OT: email
> 
> Does anyone know if email can come from a url that will not display in
> i.e?
> IOW, if can I get email from Somebody at mx5.1premio.com if when I put
> www.mx5.1premio.com I cannot display a page?
> 
> On the face of it I would think that is possible.  A person could set up a
> web address just to send spam and have no valid web page served up for the
> url.
> 
> BTW, an update on SAProxy, the spam filtering program I have been
> discussing, I have found blacklists out on the web that increase the
> accuracy of my filtering.  I have written a little program to import all
> the
> addresses of a blacklist into a table with a unique index on it, then
> write
> that table back out to a config file for SpamAssassin.  This allows me to
> accumulate blacklist addresses from published lists while insuring that no
> blacklist address ever gets looked at more than once.  It seems to be
> working.  I'll let you know what the new figures show for filtering, but I
> am already getting spam removal based on the fact it is in my blacklist.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com
> 
> 
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