> There isn't an easy way to exempt a range of IP addresses from blacklist lookups, but Mercury help suggests this:
>
> Whitelists
>
> The same technique used by blacklist query servers could also be used to create "whitelists" - servers listing machines that are always
> acceptable. At the time of writing, no public whitelists exist on the Internet that we know of, but if you control your own local domain
> name server, there is nothing to prevent you from entering addresses in the proper form within that database then creating a Mercury
> definition to query it. This approach could be useful if you need to correspond with a site that has somehow become blacklisted, without
> turning off blacklist controls for other sites.

From "Robert Croson, Jr" <robert@arcm.com>

You don't really need to run your own DNS server to support a MercuryS whitekist. It is possible to do it using HOSTS file entries.  

http://email.arcm.com/wiki/index.php/HOSTSFileWhiteListing

You can also use a DNS caching utility, such as haneWIN DNS, TreeWalk, or FastCache, instead of a DNS server. These programs simply remember all of your DNS requests, and cache the answers. It could possibly speed up your browsing if you have a slow DNS server. These tools also let you add your own permanent entries as well.  

Once you have a DNS cache running, you can do all sorts of funky-cool stuff, including whitelisting domains, IP addresses, controlling what servers are used to deliver your mail (useful if you have access to a relay server, and a specific domain refuses to take mail from your own (i.e. you run a server from your home and are rejected because you are on a dynamic IP)), etc.  

You can also add your own DNS blacklist for domains, IPs, etc.

http://email.arcm.com/wiki/index.php/DNSWhiteLists

Hello,

 is it possible to configure the SMTP Server, under connection control, to exempt a IP-range from

Spam-controll? The only option I've seen is to exempt from transaction filtering...

thanks

There isn't an easy way to exempt a range of IP addresses from blacklist lookups, but Mercury help suggests this:

Whitelists

The same technique used by blacklist query servers could also be used to create "whitelists" - servers listing machines that are always acceptable. At the time of writing, no public whitelists exist on the Internet that we know of, but if you control your own local domain name server, there is nothing to prevent you from entering addresses in the proper form within that database then creating a Mercury definition to query it. This approach could be useful if you need to correspond with a site that has somehow become blacklisted, without turning off blacklist controls for other sites.

/Rolf