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block mails from a particular country in postfix

Is there any possibility to block mails from country wise in Postfix.  for Example I need to block all mails coming from China. Please let me know the process.

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Vijay.G
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Please take a look here, they were able to get this completed with Postfix:

http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/how-to-reject-spam-from-certain-countries-if-you-must-really-really-do-it/
The most straightforward way is blocking the /8 IP block of the associated country, via iptables.
The list of IPv4 is here - http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml
Ipv6 is here - https://www.iana.org/assignments/bgp-extended-communities/bgp-extended-communities.xhtml#non-trans-ipv6

Regardless of your postfix config, if you block via iptables rules, they won't be able to get mail or any other packets to your server...like bruteforce, etc.
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is PFblocker is open source? can we install it in my mail server which is UBUNTU back-end. If So Please let me know the procedure.
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Yes PFblocker is open source, however it only installs on PFsense from what I know and found. So maybe use PFsense as your firewall then you'll have all this functionality
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