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Re: greylisting on debian.org?



On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> On Monday 10 July 2006 02:17, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:02:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > > Another problem is with hosts that do not accept a message from an MTA
> > > unless that MTA is willing to accept replies.  This is a common spam
> > > prevention measure.
> >
> > It also prevents mail from setups that use different servers for inbound
> > and outbound mail.
> 
> Hmm.  I've not seen this kind of sender verification.  As I know it, the 
> receiving MX connects the regular MX for the sender address to see if 
> *that* is ready to receive mail.  Works beautifully if outbound != inbound.

And sets the envolope sender to what in the probe?

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
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