Le mercredi 4 Août 2004 17:03, wayne a écrit :
Whitelisting the To: address is something that SpamAssassin does. It
allows many emails sent through mail forwarders to be whitelisted. If
I send email to <user(_at_)forwarder(_dot_)tld>, and it gets passed onto
<user(_at_)isp(_dot_)tld), the email will be coming from an IP address
associated
with forwarder.tld. Since user(_at_)isp(_dot_)tld has been involved with the
creation and running of this forwarding relationship, they can easily
whitelist it.
If you whitelist the "To: " corresponding to your address at the forwarder,
you will whitelist all the spam sent to this address, won't you ?
Unless you rely on the forwarder itself to perform the checks and reject
failures in the first place...?
It is most probable that the address @your_forwarder is the address that you
publicly communicate the most as "this is my permanent address", where your
actual destination address @your_isp may vary when you change ISP, and you
may want to keep it private. A lot of people proceed this way...
Thus, the address @your_forwarder will be the address that will receive the
bigest quantity of spam, viruses and forgeries...
Did I miss something ?
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Michel Bouissou <michel(_at_)bouissou(_dot_)net> OpenPGP ID 0xDDE8AC6E