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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by SM <sm...@resistor.net> on 2006/08/30 22:41:44 UTC
RE: source SENDER authentication ? (as opposed to SPF HOST
authentication)
At 10:55 30-08-2006, Michael Grey wrote:
>I like Michel Vaillancourt's idea - if it has to be done.
There are milters and MTAs that can do that. It's not a good idea as
it can cause a denial of service.
Regards,
-sm
RE: source SENDER authentication ? (as opposed to SPF HOST
authentication)
Posted by David B Funk <db...@engineering.uiowa.edu>.
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, SM wrote:
> At 10:55 30-08-2006, Michael Grey wrote:
> >I like Michel Vaillancourt's idea - if it has to be done.
>
> There are milters and MTAs that can do that. It's not a good idea as
> it can cause a denial of service.
Also you risk getting blacklisted. When you run one of those critters
your site looks like a hacker doing dictionary attacks. IE lots of
probes with bogus names and fewer actual valid mail transfers.
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