On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:06:57PM -0000, Tony Hoyle wrote: > I can't see how this can work... > > Spammers will simply put in a special case for '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' so > they don't send to it. > Malicious people will subscribe things like mailing lists to it. All I > would > have to do to get the SA list on this would be to send a subscribe request > with > the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address - the confirmation email would be enough to get > on the blocklist.
This is an open relay check. Since most open relays aren't run by the spammer, they likely won't put in a block for that address. Hell, they're running an open relay, they probably don't know how to configure the thing to block addresses. If the spam-specific open relays were "smart", they'd do the normal thing which is let the machine relay for specific addresses/domains/networks/IPs. Then when it's checked for open-relayness from the outside, it'll look like a properly configured server and they won't be put into these databases. Arguably, the "smart" ones already do this due to the second sentence in the first paragraph. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "What should you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?" - Dennis Miller _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
