Another msg from Carl where he says AOL will start doing recipient validation at the MX level.
>X-AV-Checked: Sat May 29 14:40:14 2004 virusgate.meiway.com >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) > Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 >X-Accept-Language: en-us, en >X-AOL-IP: 68.48.30.193 >X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) >Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 08:36:11 -0400 >Sender: Spam Prevention Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Carl Hutzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: MISC: abuse from AOL >X-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-RCPT-TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Inhouse. > >We will simply start doing recip validates on the front side. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:39:30PM -0400, Carl Hutzler wrote: >> >>| We have a 2 tier mail system (which stinks) and this is a result. >>| | I can null bounces to your domain if you like. These servers only | >>deliver bounces. >>| | Yes, they are bounces from a joe job attack. >>| | I am sorry for the additional load on your system. We are targeting >>to | have this problem fixed by years end. It is a big architectural >>change | for us. >> >>I'm curious. Would that be re-architectured with the existing software, >>off the shelf software (paid or free), or developed in-house? >> >>I'd worry if you were trying to do this simply by configuring existing >>software of some kind. So many newfangled interfaces and excessive >>use of resources seems to be the way of things these days. I'm doing >>the designs now for my own MX-only SMTP daemon. I'm doing this in one >>tier. But I'm curious and interested in places doing their own SMTPD >>development. >> >> > >-- >Carl Hutzler >Director, AntiSpam Operations >America Online Mail Operations >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >703.265.5521 work >703.915.6862 cell
