Re: [rt.amsl.com #7269] ietf.org mail blocking?

["Eric Rescorla" <ekr at rtfm.com>]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Glen <glen at amsl.com> wrote:
> Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>>
>> I've used failed forward and reverse lookups of the HELO and MTA IP
>> for a long time as spam indicators in Spamassassin's rules, and they
>> *are* useful spam indicators, but I think that summarily rejecting
>> mail on this one check is summarily bad.  James, I'f you've had this
>> absolute condition added to the IETF mail setup, then please have it
>> removed again and let Spammassassin use these lookups as two among
>> its hundreds of weighted checks.
>> That seems sane to me; the current situation doesn't.
>
> And I certainly didn't want this to escalate into something this involved.
>
> AFAIK this check has been in there since cutover, and I can't speak for why
> it's suddenly become exposed... but in the interest of getting a quick
> resolution, even if a temporary one, I've modified the ruleset here.
>
> Eric, could you please test this and let me know how it goes?  If it fails
> again, we can try something else.

Yeah, things got through... though it looks like there is still some timeout
in play since it took a long time for the queue to flush.

-Ekr