It sounded like a bad idea, verifying with [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead
of [EMAIL PROTECTED]   

Thanks Len ... I've always told everyone that English was my second
language.  LOL

Christopher Checca
Packard Transport, Inc.
IT Department
24021 South Municipal Dr
PO Box 380
Channahon, IL.  60410
815 467 9260
815 467 6939 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.packardtransport.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Conrad
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spam to Root/Postmaster


>I had a couple of customers using lotus notes ... part of their antispam
>setup was to verify that the sending mail server had an postmaster account.
>If it didn't then they rejected the email ... seams a little to much work
>for an MX server, but they claimed it worked well for them.

That's kind of and "RFC-ignorant" policy, requiring the @sender.domain's MX 
to accept postmaster.  It's SAV, but with the "sender" always being 
"postmaster".

I've seen similar stupidities.

IMGate does SAV probes using

MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

but the probed MX refuses all mail from postmaster, dumb and RFC-violating, 
and gave the error text:

"postmaster failed to authenticate" which is a really stupid choice of 
words, as well as totally incorrect description of what's going on, but 
what do programmers know about English?  :)

Since they don't accept from any postmaster, our SAV, in turn, refuses all 
their mail because of their unverified (failed) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Len


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