Arnt Gulbrandsen
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In which I don't block spam any more

Last night, Spamhaus started answering my DNS lookups with this link. Well, 2a01:4f8:191:91a8::2 isn't an open resolver, despite what Spamhaus claims on that page. What appears to have happened is that one or more spammers opened a lot of SMTP connections, my server (which serves <10 people) made a lot of Spamhaus lookups, and Spamhaus assumed that the high query rate must be due to an open resolver.

Appears to have happened.

Effective today, I won't reject spam any more. Instead it'll go into a quarantine somewhere. Haven't decided exactly how.

This angers me. Misleading error messages always anger me.