Re: OT: sender address verification .. is it feasible

2006-12-01 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Ramprasad wrote: > Is anyone already having experiences with sender address verification Are you talking of verification using SMTP callbacks? If so, yes. I'm currently using my own SA plugin for this, but it's not verifying everrything. Points: * You can't use VRFY (the SMTP command meant for

Re: OT: sender address verification .. is it feasible

2006-12-01 Thread hamann . w
Hi, one of the problems about that: some legitimate mail from automated systems (e.g. a website registration) is sent as From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: registration Please visit http://domain.com/register/id=xyz In case of problems please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAV will just trash thes

Re: sender address verification .. is it feasible

2006-12-01 Thread Loren Wilton
Waste resource and bandwidth accepting mail and scanning it or waste time probing for correct from ids ( and also risk being blacklisted for probes ) .. which is better. Since you will waste less overall net resources doing your own scanning, I'd say that is better. Quite aside from the fact t

OT: sender address verification .. is it feasible

2006-11-30 Thread Ramprasad
I had read of sender address verification(SAV) about a year back, some people had done that too. I found the idea too unfeasible for checking from-addresses before accepting mail at MTA. The scene is different today now with 90% of all mail being spam it seems not that bad an idea anyway My gue