On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, A Page in the Life of ... wrote:
> I would argue that SMTP AUTH, in conjunction with SSL is more alive now
> than it has been in a while.
It has been painful because of poor standards support in common mail
clients, but they all pretty much came around in the last few months.
We support pop-before-smtp, smtp auth, and webmail. Users are happy.
> Content based is good, RBL is good, SPEWS is good.
SPEWS is good as long as you don't mind blocking most email from AOL
because of a typo. They did that for over 12 hours a few months ago.
SPEWS is *way* too trigger-happy and error-prone. If you don't care about
losing a little personal email, fine, but don't subject your customers to
it.
We reject about 5% of all email with a milter that does simple
pattern-based spam and AV filtering. The most successful rule is
"<iframe src=3Dcid:";,
"<iframe src=cid:";,
which traps all klez variants.
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