Re: Filtering outgoing email

[Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

At 09:46 AM 6/23/2009, Joe Vieira put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> the first of which is
> http://code.google.com/p/anti-phishing-email-reply/ the use of this. We
> loop outgoing mail thru another postfix instance to filter based off
> this project's list of phishing reply addresses. If you mail to a known
> phisher, your mail gets dropped. good protection.

Any idea what the impact of using this has on the timeliness of mail
delivery?  With phishers being able to choose almost any return address,
this seems like a galactic scale game of whack a moll.  ;-)  I worry
that our servers couldn't handle the additional load.




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