Blocking a particular TLD
Blocking a particular TLD
Is there any way to simply block all email from a specific TLD? Most of our spam seems to be coming from the .info TLD. It would just be easier to block the whole TLD then have to find specific domains/ips
Re: Blocking a particular TLD
Hello ackhelp - and thank you for your post!
While we do agree that .info domains seem to be booming quite handily (along with .biz and .tv) with marketing sources - we *strongly* recommend that blocking a full TLD is not the best approach - there are actual legitimate mail sources within those domain scopes and the possibilities of issues as a result are high.
One thing you could look into is to review a few samples of the 'uncaught' sources (via the MagicSpam Log Viewer) and see if the IP address is on a particular block list at http://www.linuxmagic.com/bms - based on what you are describing we suspect that you will likely find the majority of these messages are coming from a specific IP address or subnet that is likely already listed as a spam source that may be on a list that you do not at this time have enabled.
Barring all else, please feel free to post / forward some samples of said messages and we can certainly run a quick review and offer recommendations.
Thanks!
While we do agree that .info domains seem to be booming quite handily (along with .biz and .tv) with marketing sources - we *strongly* recommend that blocking a full TLD is not the best approach - there are actual legitimate mail sources within those domain scopes and the possibilities of issues as a result are high.
One thing you could look into is to review a few samples of the 'uncaught' sources (via the MagicSpam Log Viewer) and see if the IP address is on a particular block list at http://www.linuxmagic.com/bms - based on what you are describing we suspect that you will likely find the majority of these messages are coming from a specific IP address or subnet that is likely already listed as a spam source that may be on a list that you do not at this time have enabled.
Barring all else, please feel free to post / forward some samples of said messages and we can certainly run a quick review and offer recommendations.
Thanks!
Re: Blocking a particular TLD
While there may be legitimate hosts using the .info TLD we've certainly never done business with any of them. Hosting our mail for a small business it would save much more time and effort to simply block .info domains and white list the 1 or 2 legit domains out there instead of hunting and pecking down random IP's of hijacked computers.
Just figure it would be a useful tool to have, especially for smaller businesses.
Just figure it would be a useful tool to have, especially for smaller businesses.
Re: Blocking a particular TLD
Hello ackhelp,
We appreciate your feedback and letting us know what can be a useful tool for our customers. We will certainly have that feature request submitted to our development team for review!
Thank you.
We appreciate your feedback and letting us know what can be a useful tool for our customers. We will certainly have that feature request submitted to our development team for review!
Thank you.
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