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Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder
From: "Brent J. Nordquist" <b-nordquist () bethel edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:41:16 -0500 (CDT)
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
Does anyone know why Verisign has set up a fake SMTP server at their SiteFinder service to bounce email messages sent to misspelled or expired domain names?
Yeah; it's outlined in their "best practices" document. Here's the email they sent with a pointer to the PDF: http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg22244.html The upshot is that now, instead of my mail server being able to reject mail from bogus (non-existent) domains, it sits in my mail spool while I try to contact "snubby" their little SMTP rejector, which (last time I looked) isn't handling the load very well. Needless to say this does not make me happy, and I would not apply the label "best practices" to what VeriSign is doing. -- Brent J. Nordquist <b-nordquist () bethel edu> N0BJN Other contact information: http://kepler.acns.bethel.edu/~bjn/contact.html * Fast pipe * Always on * Get out of the way - Tim Bray http://tinyurl.com/7sti _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Richard M. Smith (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Pamela Patterson (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Brent J. Nordquist (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Michal Zalewski (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Damian Gerow (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder fulldisclosure (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Dan Rowles (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Joshua Levitsky (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Nate Hill (Sep 22)
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- RE: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Joshua Thomas (Sep 22)
- Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder Joshua Levitsky (Sep 22)
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