On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> It is not sufficient to not accept bounces from messages that could not
> have generated. The problem has already occurred if any sites attempt
> to send such bounces in the first place. Stopping them from being
> accepted is not the problme -- the problem is to stop them before
> they're ever generated in the first place.
It depends on what your goals are. Given that email's error reporting
mechanism is so flooded with crap that people are turning it off, it is
worth specifying a way in which people can avoid bogus errors without
serious compatibility problems and without simply accepting unreliability.
Yes, this doesn't fix the underlying forgery problem: it only fixes a
symptom. However people are working on fixes for the underlying problem,
but that is much harder since it is an Internet-wide problem that can't be
solved unilaterally.
Tony.
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