[SURBL-Discuss] Thunderbird and SURBL?

[Tim A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Chan <jeffc at surbl.org>
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:21:59 -0800
> Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Thunderbird and SURBL?
> To: "SURBL Discussion list (E-mail)" <discuss at lists.surbl.org>
>
> On Monday, December 13, 2004, 8:14:51 AM, Chris Santerre wrote:
> > Thinking out loud....
>
> > Anyone have contact with thunderbird devs? Could a pop proxy be used to
> > check emails being downloaded by thunderbird on SURBL, then decline to
> > download the ones that hit? Obviously with whitelist bypasses?
>
> > Then the user could use a web client to delete spams without
> > downloading? Or
> > whatever.....
>
> That's an interesting idea, but it could generate more DNS
> traffic than our name servers can handle.  It's probably
> better to do these kinds of things in a centralized way
> on mail servers to take advantage of DNS caching, etc.
> more strongly.

Since we provide a service to do just this using SURBL hopefully this isn't taken as a spam to this list. I thought it would be
useful for folks at SURBL and list members to know who use SURBL. Perhaps a list should be kept somewhere listing folks making
use of SURBL.

We have high regards for the SURBL folks and it is in the mix of many methods we use to combat spam at SimpleFilter. We have a
POP3 and SMTP service that uses the same backend anti-spam engine and can be used from Thunderbird as it works with any POP3
email client. The SMTP service has some additional features I won't go into here.