From: Arvinn Løkkebakken (arvinnsandakerveien.net)
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 10:09:13 CST

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John Peach wrote:

>On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:58:38 +0100
>Arvinn Løkkebakken <arvinnsandakerveien.net> wrote:
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>>Robert Felber wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:19:52AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
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>>>>>the heap in many ways. What's next for you?
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>>>>Adding anti-spam authentication,
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>>>Anything in mind which will help against spam from ISPs like
>>>hotmail/msn/yahoo (which do have a hard job)?
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>>I almost never receive spam from those ISP's. networks. However I
>>receive a lot of spam from 0.0.0.0/0 using *hotmail.com, *yahoo.com
>>etc. as envelope sender. You know these ISPs can't do anything to stop
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>>that, as they are not the originators.
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>...but YOU can - I will not accept mail purporting to be from yahoo,
>hotmail, aol etc. unless it comes directly from one of their servers.
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I once did this and it resulted in too many rejects. This happened
because senders doesn't alyways use the intended interface to send the
message. In my opinion, not a good idea.

Arvinn

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