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Re: Large Mail Provider Throttling
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () outblaze com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:34:54 +0530
Aaron Thomas [1/23/2004 8:28 AM] :
Sender Permitted From (http://spf.pobox.com/) attempts to eliminate Joe Dropping from domain.com by doing a look up on a TXT record similar to
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As this project is fairly new, there aren't many large domains making use of it, and the tools available aren't mature enough for some email
What I described in my earlier email (helo filtering) is aimed at the same result. Only, it has to be done on a case by case basis. And it does allow road warriors.
The second way (slightly more radical, prone to a little more collateral damage, but does stop a LOT of spam) - stop accepting mail from commonly forged freemail domains if the mail originates from an IP with either
* no rDNS * generic (dialup / cable / dsl) pattern rDNS -- srs (postmaster|suresh)@outblaze.com // gpg : EDEDEFB9 manager, outblaze.com security and antispam operations
Current thread:
- Large Mail Provider Throttling Edward Gray (Jan 22)
- Re: Large Mail Provider Throttling Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 22)
- RE: Large Mail Provider Throttling Aaron Thomas (Jan 22)
- Re: Large Mail Provider Throttling Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 22)
- RE: Large Mail Provider Throttling Aaron Thomas (Jan 22)
- Re: Large Mail Provider Throttling Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 22)