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Date:      Mon, 2 May 2011 10:41:59 +0400
From:      cronfy <cronfy@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, gosand1982@yahoo.com
Subject:   Re: limiting pop access to gmail servers ?
Message-ID:  <BANLkTikEoddderju8un4jRouVWDBvPPZ8g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3FF47F45-A59F-4542-A65E-6069300D9224@patpro.net>
References:  <349555.87646.qm@web120019.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <3FF47F45-A59F-4542-A65E-6069300D9224@patpro.net>

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Hi,

> BUT, I suspect there are a LOT of possible IPs that google will use to po=
p
> mail
> > from us ...
>
> You are right about that. According to my pop logs, my servers have
> encounter about 1000 different IPs from google (920 actually).
> Domain names are always like mail-[a-z][a-z][0-9]-[a-z][0-9][0-9]*.
> google.com
> By the way, I'm in europe, I'm not sure USA, Australia or Japan would see
> the same gmail POP clients.
>


You can make active checks for incoming connections. If reverse DNS record
is valid (ip -> resolves to name -> resolves to same ip) and it matches '.*
google.com$' regexp, then it is Google.


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