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Re: Spamhaus...
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:10:54 -0800
Larry Sheldon wrote:
On 2/20/2010 11:53 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:So we've looked at it from 2 different aspects, and in both cases, the RFC says you shouldn't be bouncing spam to where it came from.Small nit, which is germane to the whole discussion; "...the RFC says you shouldn't be bouncing spam to where IT SAYS it came from." There is no way in the current universe to know where the item came from by inspecting it. You can only tell where you got it from...and if you can't reject it while you know that, you must discard it.
s/mime detached signatures rooted in some ca that you trust are actually a rather good way of identifying the sender. it's path or orign mail server is rather irrelevant in that context. i's not a general purpose solution but your statement is false.
Current thread:
- Re: Spamhaus..., (continued)
- Re: Spamhaus... Rich Kulawiec (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... Daniel Senie (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 20)
- Mail Best Practices and Documentation (was Re: Spamhaus...) Larry Sheldon (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... William Herrin (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... Larry Sheldon (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... Michael Dillon (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... Larry Sheldon (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... Larry Sheldon (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... Joel Jaeggli (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... Larry Sheldon (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... William Herrin (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... John Levine (Feb 20)
- Re: Spamhaus... William Herrin (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Paul Vixie (Feb 22)
- Re: Spamhaus... Rich Kulawiec (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... William Herrin (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... James Hess (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Rich Kulawiec (Feb 24)