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RE: TECH OMISSION: Stronger checks against email forgery

2004-09-07 02:22:53

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Michael R. Brumm wrote:

The (2821 MAIL FROM) bounce address is irrelevant? This seems absurd
considering how many bounces (containing spam and viruses) I get for
messages I never sent.

If you want to solve that problem set up something like BATV.
Sender-ID and SPF do not solve the backscatter problem; at best
they might ameliorate it.

Tony.
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