-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: > Unfortunately many times one cannot control the reverse records, > because the IP address pool belongs to the ISP. Nevertheless the SMTP > server logs the IP address which the message came from. It doesn't > matter if the message would be bounced or accepted because of the > (in)correct reverse resolving. Additionally there's the SPF [1] and I > believe the email system at gentoo.org uses it. If that's so and my > poor abused address :) was at a domain with SPF record imposing "fail" > policy, that message shouldn't be accepted at all. At best you'd get > something like: > > "Domain of [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not designate 192.0.2.25 > as permitted sender." > > Anyways the right thing to do is to ban the IP address which the > offencive message came from, not the email address. So, signatures > don't come to play here. > > [1] http://www.openspf.org/
But you see it isn't that difficulty to abuse a email address. That what happened to your address and what P. S. Ziegler described was what I meant with "relatively easy". ;-) Have fun, W. Canis :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhAIscACgkQKT9zBKF0twXUNACfdOnkosO99d8JqV0+JsYynrhP 0hkAoJgZzmfQAMcTpg8hehBhbZ/frb4M =XD5e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
