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Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 09:32:51 -0500
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:23:41 +0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () outblaze com> said:
What they are trying to do is to connect back to email.com's MXs and ensure that the user <sgswretyshsdhtest () email com> who is trying to send them mail really does exist, and is not just a figment of some spambot's imagination.
And they tell that how, exactly, given that many sites do NOT allow VRFY or EXPN? I suppose they could do a MAIL FROM/RCPT TO pair, look at the result, and QUIT instead of DATA. Of course, that would be silly, because if it ever ran into another site that tried the same thing, that site would try to call back and do a MAIL FROM/RCPT TO...
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- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Jared Mauch (Dec 01)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Michael Lewinski (Dec 01)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Daniel Roesen (Dec 01)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders John Brown (CV) (Dec 02)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Daniel Roesen (Dec 02)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Randy Bush (Dec 02)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Paul Vixie (Dec 02)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Daniel Roesen (Dec 01)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 02)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 02)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Richard Cox (Dec 02)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 02)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 02)
- Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 02)