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voidmain:
Or you could put out your own mail server and not block attachments.    I would offer you a mail account on my server but I guess that wouldn't help you out either since I also block.  

caveman_piet:
heh heh

Tx for the offer

but Tuxville, USA is a bit far from Midrand RSA.  :D

Had a nice problem today on another SMTP server...
some nice guy (read #@$# fool) got it blacklisted.

First to figure out what the problem was and now
to get it out of the blacklist ;)

voidmain:
Yes, I also use RBL/ORDB on my servers as well as block any other spam addresses that I get. People will get on the black list if they allow open relay. It has caused me some trouble in the past but fixing up the server of the offending party and getting them removed from RBL is a small price to pay to help in the fight with SPAM.

caveman_piet:
ya. I agree - finding the problem was half the
fun - sorting it out - setting the configs
on the server etc. the rest.

Now off to bed - have to get ready to fly off
to the UK tonight.
Here it's 02h45 in the morning - and I have to
pick up the passport by 8.

g'night

voidmain:
Hey, you just gave me an idea. It wouldn't be all that hard to modify sendmail milter to only scan/reject messages for those users who wish to have that functionality. It could check a file for a "userid/value". A CGI web program could be written that would allow the users to log in/configure their setting. Maybe I'll start work on that tonight.

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