On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 17:05 +0530, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:43 PM, kenneth gonsalves
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > smtp auth
> 
>          What about bounce addresses?. For eg., If I get hold of some
> open relay and send hundreds of mails with imagined RCPT TOs, with
> MAIL FROM set to yourid at yourdomain, unless you have some mechanism
> like SPF and Bounce address validation(BATV) the users are going to
> suffer a lot. Thanks 

is setting that up a big problem? In the old days domains used to be
blacklisted without much evidence. Nowadays I see that if a mailserver
gets a mail purporting to be from my domain, it verifies to see whether
the said mail *actually* comes from the IP of my domain.
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves

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