Detecting Valid Message Replies

2017-01-03 Thread Rob Gunther
The other day I was thinking it would be cool if you could detect legitimate replies to mail I send. Everyone gets spam with subjects like this: Re: some type of trash subject Obviously those are not replies to a message you sent. That got me thinking of ways to authenticate a legitimate reply

Yahoo - Can't figure out a server is down?

2017-03-04 Thread Rob Gunther
We have run our servers with a decoy, our MX records have been like this for 10+ years: mx0.example.com mx1.example.com mx2.example.com mx1 & mx2 are real servers. mx0 is nothing, it points to an IP address that is controlled by us but there is no server. The concept being that some spammers at