At 08:58 PM 5/18/03 -0400, Kee Hinckley wrote:
At 10:53 AM +0100 5/18/03, Jon Kyme wrote:
>
Interesting that the results vary so much by ISP. Yahoo accounts are
pretty valid. Hotmail accounts are pretty bad. AOL is quite good.
Earthlink has a problem. MSN's slightly better, but still negative.
Of course yahoo will say 250 to pretty much anything.
So these addresses are "valid" in what sense exactly?
They said "no" to 16% of the messages I queried them on. The
specific message they used was:
553 VS10-RT Possible forgery or deactivated due to abuse (#5.1.1)
Can you show instances in which they say yes to messages they cannot deliver?
I tried this:
% head /dev/urandom | md5sum
ce4c096d881440fffebbde3b64291d92 -
% telnet mx1.mail.yahoo.com 25
Trying 64.156.215.5...
Connected to mx1.mail.yahoo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 YSmtp mta124.mail.scd.yahoo.com ESMTP service ready
helo spamwolf.com
250 mta124.mail.scd.yahoo.com
mail from:<>
250 null sender <> ok
rcpt to:<ce4c096d881440fffebbde3b64291d92(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
250 recipient <ce4c096d881440fffebbde3b64291d92(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> ok
quit
221 mta124.mail.scd.yahoo.com
Connection closed by foreign host.
Saying that <ce4c096d881440fffebbde3b64291d92(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> is
unlikely to be a valid address is an understatement.
Scott Nelson <scott(_at_)spamwolf(_dot_)com>
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