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Re: Conflict with challenge/response filters

2005-07-05 16:26:22
Julian Mehnle wrote:
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
The "spam challenge" message was sent to the rewritten
envelope-from address, not to the "From:" address.

C/R systems definitely should not send their challenges to the
"From:" address.

Agreed. Just mentioned it to explain why I (server admin) got it instead of the actual sender.

The incident made me realize that having all outgoing envelope-from
addresses rewritten clashes with the challenge/response approach.
Not that I personally care much about the latter, but some users
may consider it a problem.

Anybody who knows of a simple solution to this problem?

Stuart suggested one.  I don't know any other simple solution.

Okay, I'm going to explore Stuart's suggestion.

C/R systems are bad, period.

I tend to agree. However, getting a proper understanding of the SPF concept and take the necessary measures is quite time consuming, at least that was my experience when I did last year. Okay, I may not be the smartest guy on this planet, but I don't think the opposite is true either.

And as long as that's the case, we must respect that some people go for seemingly simple solutions such as C/R.

The web site discussion in another thread is indeed important IMO.

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