Dave Warren wrote:
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I set up a blogware trial, decided to give a few of the features a trial run.
One of the features is an email interface -- I should be able to submit messages via email, and get updates for other people's blogs via email too. Great, I have users who might really use this because they hate web interfaces nearly as much as I do.
I could even put up a system status page, hosted off-network (in case EVERYTHING is down on my side) and tie it to my email notification system. Not impossible to do otherwise, but since a trial account of $0.50/weblog/month is more then enough, why the heck not?
I left the confirmation on initially just to see what happens and emailed a post to my blog. I waited and waited and waited for the confirmation, nothing. Weird... Check the mail server, no backlog. Happen to look at my incoming spam folder, and what do you know, blogware is forging a domain it does not own or host and has never been authorized to send from, and as a result my mail server flagged it as spam.
Well isn't that fancy. In today's world even big slow moving behind the times .COMs like eBay are in the process of fixing their systems so that they don't forge sender email addresses, so I find it rather astounding that OpenSRS found a developer clueless enough to create a system that forges sender information.
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I'm sorry if this seems offensive, but frankly, somebody needs a smack upside the head.
With impending spam solutions like SPF, or whatever they are calling it now, this will become more of a problem. What about something like having them come from [blogware username or some sort of hash/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Add an option the blog owner could set to allow replies to that address to be forwarded to the email address for [blogware username] or to send them to /dev/null. Maybe an additional option to allow the reply-to header to be set to something of the blog owner's choosing also? Just thinking out loud, here.
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