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  Anti-Spam Mechanisms on our Mail Servers

Unsolicited Bulk Email ("spam", "junk email") is a major problem on the Internet. As with many Service Providers, 80%+ of incoming email at Ultradesign's mail relays is spam. If not dealt with efficiently by rejecting it before it enters our servers and customer mailboxes, the ever-increasing volume of junk email would clog our mail queues and seriously annoy our customers. To address this problem, Ultradesign Internet uses a series of anti-spam mechanisms/filters on our mail relays which very efficiently identify and reject over 99% of incoming spam emails.
The spam filters outlined below apply to all incoming email for all domains by default. Ultradesign customers can request anti-spam filters be turned OFF for their domain by contacting Support.

  DNS-based Block Lists (DNSBLs)

Ultradesign Internet (UXN) uses the following International Blocklists to refuse incoming email from known spam sources and identified spam relayers. Our mail servers check all connecting server 's IP address against these trusted blocklists:

DNSBL Description
sbl.spamhaus.org Spamhaus Block List (SBL) - direct spam sources
xbl.spamhaus.org Exploits Block List (XBL) - illegal exploits (proxies/zombies)
pbl.spamhaus.org End-user dial-up and dynamic ADSL sources

 
Anti-Spam Mechanisms

Our server anti-spam mechanisms include:

Filter Description
SpamTrap Server IP lockout mechanism triggered by receipt of email addressed to certain email addresses in your domain which do not belong to any real user and only ever receive spam.
Bad Sender Refuses mail from domains which do not exist or addresses which do not resolve.
Bad Sender Refuses mail from specified addresses or domains. This filter can also be applied by customers on a domain-by-domain basis or on a User Account basis via the WebMail interface.
Anti-Harvest Server mechanism identifies and ends attempts by spammers to harvest a domain's usernames by conducting a 'dictionary attack' against the mail server.
Spammer URLs The content of incoming emails is checked for URLs of web sites, any URLs or domains found are resolved to IPs and checked in realtime against the following systems:
spammer's website IP or Name Server IP is listed on sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
spammer's domain is listed on SURBL

 
DNS (Reverse) Name Blacklist

Connections are rejected from IPs whose reverse lookup matches the following heavily-abused DNS names, denoting dynamic dialups or machines which should not be running mail services:

IP Reverse DNS Name Blacklist (Dynamic DSL hosts)
*.abo.wanadoo.fr *.da.qwest.net *-pool-*
*.dsl-verzion.net *.dip.t-dialin.net dialpool-*
*.client.comcast.net dsl-*.mx
*.bct.bellsouth.net *.dyn.optonline.net dsl-*.br
*.client.attbi.com *.cable.rogers.com dsl-*.ar
*.client2.attbi.com *.hinet.net *.dsl.*.br

 
Content Filters

Our server content filter refuses messages containing certain text strings normally found only in spam. The primary tests include:

Content Filter Description
ADV: Presence of the spam identifier characters "ADV", "ADULT" or "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT" at the start/end of the message Subject
Hash-busters Presence of empty space in the Subject followed by random text.
Multiple hidden comments in HTML messages (<!--*-->).
Encrypted HTML URLs,
X-Mailer Presence of known spam software signatures
(such as "X-EM-Registration"
or "X-Mailer: *Avalanche*", etc.)
Badfile Presence of attachments of type .exe, .pif, .scr, .vbs, .bat, .lnk

 
Local IP Blacklist

In addition to the DNSBLs and filters above, the following are netblocks blacklisted locally, as at April 2004:

Ultradesign Local IP Blacklist
;------------------------------
; ARGENTINA
200.42.128.0 - 200.42.159.255
200.43.153.0 - 200.43.153.255
200.45.190.0 - 200.45.191.255
200.51.80.0 - 200.51.80.255
201.255.0.0 - 201.255.255.255
200.42.0.0 - 200.42.255.255
200.68.0.0 - 200.68.255.255
;------------------------------
; BRAZIL
200.165.0.0 - 200.165.255.255
;------------------------------
; CHINA
61.128.0.0 - 61.191.255.255
202.96.0.0 - 202.111.255.255
;------------------------------
; JAPAN
202.229.202.0 - 202.229.202.255
;------------------------------
; KOREA
61.96.0.0 - 61.111.255.255
;------------------------------
; TAIWAN
218.187.0.0 - 218.187.127.255
203.66.0.0 - 203.70.255.255
203.73.0.0 - 203.75.255.255
210.243.128.0 - 210.243.255.255
210.244.0.0 - 210.244.127.255
210.64.0.0 - 210.66.255.255
210.68.0.0 - 210.68.255.255
211.74.0.0 - 211.74.127.255
211.78.160.0 - 211.78.191.255
61.59.0.0 - 61.59.255.255
140.116.0.0 - 140.116.255.255
163.13.0.0 - 163.32.255.255
203.64.0.0 - 203.64.255.255
203.68.0.0 - 203.68.255.255
203.71.0.0 - 203.72.255.255
210.240.0.0 - 210.240.255.255
210.242.0.0 - 210.243.127.255
210.59.0.0 - 210.60.255.255
210.70.0.0 - 210.71.127.255
;------------------------------

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