iPermitMail Email Firewall

[richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)]

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote on Friday:
> > I gave the source to the abuse address at ipermitmail.com.
> No. I think the problem has been corrected.

Jerry--

The ipermitmail offender is still on the BLU list.  Any BLU submitters who
aren't yet on ipermitmail's whitelist are still getting those annoying
challenge-response messages.

Other than blackholing ipermitmail's mx receivers from the BLU server, I don't
have any ideas on how to stamp this problem out.  (Obviously whoever's using
ipermitmail is not getting BLU postings anymore, so he/she remains oblivious
to our complaints, or if they are aware, they have chosen not to discontinue
using ipermitmail for the BLU subscription.)

Perhaps BLU should post a policy on the mailing-list page asking that new
subscribers double-check their email address to make sure it does not have
challenge-response spam checking software enabled.

I suppose another idea would be to write a script that extracts the domain
portion of each of the current BLU subscribers and does a 'dig' for the MX
records.  The output could then be grep'ed for ipermitmail.com or ilap.com to
hopefully find the offending address.

-rich