Ebay acting as a list server?

[ha...@t-online.de]

Hi,

in an ISP setting there seem to be two cases where machines other than the official
mail server send mails FROM a local address
- valid clients who send mails from their local system to the mailserver (and authenticate in
one way or another to do so)
- spammers who believe that a forged local address will bypass spam checking
Consequently I started to refuse mail from non authenticated senders using local mail addresses.
It turned out soon that ebay sends valid mail, FROM a local address, TO the same local address,
with an ebay HELO address - I had to create an exemption for that case. 
Is anyone aware of other sites that do the same thing?

Wolfgang Hamann

Re: Ebay acting as a list server?

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

At 01:31 PM 1/19/2005, hamann.w@t-online.de wrote:
>Consequently I started to refuse mail from non authenticated senders using 
>local mail addresses.
>It turned out soon that ebay sends valid mail, FROM a local address, TO 
>the same local address,
>with an ebay HELO address - I had to create an exemption for that case.
>Is anyone aware of other sites that do the same thing?

Monster.com and pretty much any "email this page" system like zdnet has.