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Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess



Quoting Michael Stone (mstone@debian.org):

> What name calling? There's a difference. 

<snort>  Cute.

Ah, well.

> You're assuming unrestricted outbound connections. Might even be true in
> your environment.

It's true that there will be interim problems with corporate firewalls
(etc.) closing off outbound access to 587/tcp (but allowing access to
25/tcp).  Should diminish over time.  I suppose that's why alternatives
like POP-before-SMTP persist.

[SRS references:]

> Not applicable. That requires not only a change on the part of the
> organization implementing SPF, but also a change at any location where a
> user wants to send mail. 

Not really, only relays.

On relay sites, implementation requires installing /usr/bin/srs (the
Perl Mail::SRS module) or equivalent, then using it as a wrapper for
.forward and /etc/alias entries.  Over the longer term, it may end up
being supported inline in MTAs.  Ditto for SPF itself.




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