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Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers


From: Adi Linden <adil () adis on ca>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:08:39 -0600


How about using SMTP AUTH and verifying the envelope MAIL FROM to match
the actual user authenticating? This will make SPAM traceable and
hopefully ultimately users aware that their PC is sending junk.

Ouch ..  Then spammers may start using a From: matching the SMTP auth
user, and effectively joe-jobbing the user..  Ick..

And that would be marvelous! At the very least it would give the user an
incentive to clean up his PC. Alternately the email account could be
revoked.

Adi


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