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[Asrg] Re: "worm spam" and SPF]

2004-11-27 18:00:30
Bill Cole wrote:

Here was the specific context to which I was responding:
     they might even send out email using the user's own
     email account and/or email client.
Swen does that. Really.

Yes, but not necessarily.  Its installation procedure asks
the user to enter his smart host and credentials, and the
"effects" can be very interesting... ;-)

Generally it was possible to determine the relevant abuse@
for SWEN by looking at the Return-Path, but not _always_

SPF does nothing at all to stop it.

Yes, SWEN is quite unusual.  SPF could help to enforce the
_always_ in this case, but it can't replace a working abuse@
or the "enforced submission rights" in RfC 2476 option 6.1.

Take care if you send SWEN complaints automatically, it's not
always correct to use the Return-Path with local part abuse(_at_)(_dot_)

                      Bye, Frank



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