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Re: Our first inbound email via IPv6


From: Paul Vixie <vixie () isc org>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:42:57 +0000

"Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood () cable comcast com> writes:

In preparation for the World IPv6 Launch, inbound (SMTP) email to the
comcast.net domain was IPv6-enabled today, June 5, 2012, at 9:34 UTC.
Roughly one minute later, at 9:35:30 UTC we received our first
 inbound email over IPv6 from 2001:4ba0:fff4:1c::2. That first bit of mail
was spam, and was caught by our Cloudmark messaging anti-abuse platform
(the sender attempted a range of standard spam tactics in subsequent
connections). ...

rim shot:

i suggest that the e-mail industry consider a two-level approach to
rejecting ipv6 spam based on source address.

for more information see:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110607_two_stage_filtering_for_ipv6_electronic_mail/

paul


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