On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:57:44 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/16/02 10:36 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Nick Simicich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asserts that AOL will silently >> discard mail which lists multiple addresses in Reply-To:, one of >> which matches From: and is an AOL address. Later in that thread: > AOL silently blackholes stuff that trips its spam filters. > I can easily see, given the recent spate of spam with forged headers > to look like it's coming FROM someone (or you) @ your domain to > someone (or you) @ your domain, that comes from off-site, that AOL has > decided that anything that looks to be from an AOL account but coming > from outside the AOL universe is probably spam. Because, probably, it > is. If, as has been suggested, AOL users can't normally set Reply-To:, such a check on Reply-To is also quite valid (or damned close enough for AOL's uses). > It's basically hit a point where it's unsafe to accept mail "from" > your domain unless it's explicitly coming from a trusted SMTP > source. And yes, that screws over someone (like me) who owns a domain > on a box somewhere, and who goes on the road and uses a dialup like > earthlink and wants to continue using his real domain in his > email. Do *NOT* talk to me about POP before SMTP. I repeat, DO NOT... <Atrociously horrible hack> > But the spammers are now exploiting that, so you're going to see > everyone lock it down tight, both on the receiving side, and (with > responsible ISPs) the sending side (by limiting what domain names > they'll propogate outward) Bingo. I've already started seeing this. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
