Joseph Brennan wrote: <SNIP!> > > (a) inserting an intermediate pre-processing service into the electronic > > message delivery path by changing a Domain Name Server entry containing > > an IP address of the destination email server to contain an IP address > > of the intermediate pre-processing service; > > So it appears to be limited to an idea involving DNS. The other claims > all relate to claim 1. > <SNIP!> Look at it from Postini's lawyers viewpoint: If your DNS' MX record points to a mail server that does spam/virus filtering, and that mail server is NOT the mail server that ultimately saves the message to /var/spool/mail/whoever (or equivalent mail store), then you are in violation of their patent because you have used DNS to specify a filtering system that then delivers its filtered mail to the ultimate target using the target system's DNS MX record.
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