Re: [Exim] Spam due to forgeries out domains hosted by outbl…

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Autor: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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Temat: Re: [Exim] Spam due to forgeries out domains hosted by outblaze
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:30:36AM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> The problem with SMTP is that any host can connect and send mail with
> any sender address, hence the ease of forgeries.


No sh*t, Sherlock.

> I think I read an archive message describing how to implement SPF
> checking in exim, using ACLs, and if Outblaze were to implement SPF,
> then you could eliminate the forged emails very easily.


Did you also read the archive message describing SPF's approach to the
forwarding problem? And SPF's approach to other problems?

I didn't think so.

MBM

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