Re: Which DBLs Are Most Useful?

On May 24, 2005, at 22:35, Devdas Bhagat wrote:

> On 24/05/05 22:32 -0700, Lorrie Wood wrote:
> <snip>
>> authenticate them for SMTP server access. I decided on pop-before-smtp
>> because it has the lowest barrier to entry -- but the fact remains
>> that
>> these are still legal users coming from dynamic IP ranges who are
>> getting blocked, even when I had the check_client_access line in
>> postfix's main.cf before *any* of my reject_rbl_client lines.
>>
> Check your logs. In most cases, these are people who have no checked
> their mail before trying to send it. Outlook/Outlook Express are
> fundamentally broken in that regard (SEnd first/Receive afterwards).

Eudora and Mail.app under Windows XP and OS X.2 (two users, same
household), both after having checked mail (I went there and tried it
myself).

If the error had been "Relaying denied," I'd've chalked it up to a
pop-before-smtp error. However, the error in the log was that it was
rejected due to being in the sorbs dynamic pool.

-- Lorrie