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Qmail backscatter spam

Qmail backscatter spam

Posted Aug 31, 2006 17:00 UTC (Thu) by RussNelson (guest, #27730)
In reply to: Qmail backscatter spam by copsewood
Parent article: A comparison of Mail Transfer Agents - Part One

The solution to this problem is not to enable dictionary attacks, but is instead to not reply to forged emails. If an ISP claims to not want backscatter spam, and yet isn't signing emails using DomainKeys, then their claim is not plausible.


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