Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 22:49:48 -0400 From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM target Message-ID: <19970502224948.20236@irbs.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970502110243.007b3dc0@pop.pitt.edu>; from John Duncan on Fri, May 02, 1997 at 11:02:43AM -0400 References: <3.0.1.32.19970502110243.007b3dc0@pop.pitt.edu>
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Quoting John Duncan (jddst19+@pitt.edu): > > I've always wondered this, which doesn't apply in this case. Why doesn't > the government regulate addresses such that all sender and reply-to > addresses have to be valid addresses within a valid domain? It doesn't > matter if it's a bot or anything, it just can't be "yyyzzz@xyxy.com" or No government anything please. Checking for a valid envelope address works fine. May 2 13:11:12 irbs sendmail[5241]: Ruleset check_mail (<source@spacemailer.com>) rejection: 418 <source@spacemailer.com>... unresolvable host name spacemailer.com http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/english.html http://spam.abuse.net/spam/ ftp://ftp.irbs.com/pub/sendmail John Capo IRBS Engineering
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