That's very interesting, Scott; if only . . .
Chris
On 27 Mar 2012, at 04:32, Scott Gomez wrote:
> Just turn on doing BOTH forward and reverse DNS look-ups on the sending
> server before accepting the connection (it's even in an RFC, so it's
> "legal"). When they don't match, drop the connection because it's certainly
> either 1) spam or 2) a mis-configured server. ISPs and organizations that
> started getting most of their email dropped and not delivered would quickly
> learn how to do things correctly, and spammers would have a huge loophole
> closed to them.
>
> But then... the majority of people running Microsoft Exchange servers would
> actually have to learn how to properly configure both those servers and
> their firewalls, and experience has shown that's unlikely to happen in my
> lifetime...
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