[13086] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Oct 28 16:43:25 1997
To: Phil Lawlor <phil@agis.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:41:25 EST."
<3.0.3.32.19971028154125.03140680@agis.net>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 16:22:11 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Phil Lawlor writes:
> At 02:34 PM 10/28/97 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >Properly configured sendmail's do this, mostly.
> ^^^^^^
> I am not a sendmail expert, but I am told that it is in the forgery area
> that it could be improved.
SMTP in general has no mechanism whatsoever to prevent forgeries.
.pm
