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Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Fri Sep 10 06:04:46 2004

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:02:39 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040910085751.GF6390@meer.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:57:51AM -0700,
 Joe Rhett <jrhett@meer.net> wrote 
 a message of 19 lines which said:

> I'm not sure where "true" diverges from reality in your analysis,
> but perhaps you should create one of those mail environments and
> test before you put your foot in your mouth again?

Good idea, I plan to install a Fedora this week-end and to learn a bit
about Postfix. Your wide experience will certainly help.

If you think that sendmail or postfix modify the "enveloppe from" when
forwarding, I suggest that you send your big discovery to the IETF
MARID working group, where it may change a lot of things in the
current discussion about Sender-ID :-)

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