Re: Allowing MTAs to split messages to different recipients

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Re: Allowing MTAs to split messages to different recipients

2001-01-15 14:21:54

Jacob Palme writes:

The reason why this was abolished in the middle of the 1990-s was that
spammers used this feature to get foreign MTAs to help them split mail
to millions of recipients.


You have the timeline wrong. As far as I know, there was only one MTA
that turned off relaying by default before 1997. Sendmail didn't do that
until 1998. Open relays were still widespread in 1999.

---Dan

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