I had an interesting thought today, but it's a real strange one, so follow along:
Most spam shows up with bad headers like the From: line saying "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Is there any way for an MTA to reverse-VRFY a sending account before allowing the communication to continue? I know a lot of mail systems disable VRFY, since it allows a spammer to find out who is there, but that's pretty much dead anyway since a spammer can just send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] through [EMAIL PROTECTED] and filter out the bounces. Given all the null e-mails on my yahoo.com account, this is being done. So back to the idea. When "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wants to deliver something to me, why can't the MTA hit the MX for mail.com and VRFY that the account is valid? If it's valid, it comes through. If not *wham* gets immediately flagged as spam and goes to an alternate box or whatever. Or can procmail do this? -Mark ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
