[73370] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Has postini been taken over?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Fri Aug 20 01:37:11 2004
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:27:37 +0300
To: Ray Wong <rayw@rayw.net>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040820051703.GW19731@rayw.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 10:17 PM 19-08-04 -0700, Ray Wong wrote:
> > I am just trying to understand how postini is bypassing my anti-spam ACLs.
>
>Again, you haven't answered his question.... Did your ISP or some other
>email provider possibly sign up for Postini? How many different domain
>addresses forward into your account? If you accept mail from any other
>server for any other domain, that domain could be a postini customer.
You are missing my point. I am the ISP. I have a *downstream* customer
who may or may not have signed up to Postini. This *downstream* customer
is bypassing my anti-spam ACLs by somehow using Postini. I am trying to
figure out how Postini works.
-Hank
>Postini does not originate or forward spam, they filter mail destined for
>their customer domains. Some spam gets through their filters, because
>spammers are smart and adaptively evil. It's really quite simple.
>
>
>--
>
>Ray Wong
>rayw@rayw.net
