Re: [AMaViS-user] Marc: use SPF to prevent backscatter? Was RE: Q about mail proxy servers and setups

[Jo Rhett <jr...@netconsonance.com>]

Marc, you shouldn't be bouncing e-mails back at all.  Use D_REJECT  
and make sure you're doing it at the SMTP layer.  SPF or DKIM is  
irrelevant in this situation.

On Sep 23, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> One thing I would like to see (and this is a different subject:
> Marc: take note:  Id like to NOT BOUNCE an email back to the victim of
> backscatter if they bothered to publish SPF or SENDER ID records that
> don't match the incoming.
>
> (and, yes, this would NOT work behind a proxy)
>
> I would like the proxy to at LEAST have a copy of the valid userlist,
> NOT muck with the headers.
> MAYBE do its load balancing via bridging rather than store forward.
> That might fix a lot. But then again, it would be easier to replace  
> the
> proxy than fix it.
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