[78281] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

SMTP Port Blocking: Success or Failure?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Claydon, Tom)
Sat Feb 26 20:04:28 2005

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:04:26 -0600
From: "Claydon, Tom" <Tom.Claydon@DobsonTelco.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


We are considering filtering outbound SMTP traffic from our ISP
customers, except from our own mail servers, to help reduce the amount
of spam originating from our network. How successful/unsucessful has
implementing outbound SMTP filtering done in stopping or slowing down
spam from your network?

Also, if outbound SMTP filtering has not worked for you, are there any
other things that you have implemented that have helped with spam
traffic?

Thanks,
=20
=3D TC
=20
--
Tom Claydon, IT/ATM Network Engineer
Dobson Telephone Company
http://www.dobsonteleco.com




home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post