On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Wed, August 30, 2006 19:37, Michel Vaillancourt wrote: > > to carve it... you actually open an SMTP conversation with > > ... trap that "5xx" return, and you know its a bogus sender. > > The plug-in adds 2 points to the score. > > Get a "250 Ok" back, and you are likely "safe"... score 0. > > sendmail -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
For a local recipient it may be worth something but for a remote address all it tells you is that your mail system knows how to find the remote host. EG: % /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] deliverable: mailer relay, host mail-msa.icaen.uiowa.edu, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dave Funk University of Iowa <dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include <std_disclaimer.h> Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{