Victor Duchovni put forth on 1/17/2010 5:43 PM: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 05:38:12PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > >> According to discussions on the Postfix list there is a legitimate >> need for such functionality. Until now this requires one Postfix >> instance per source IP address. > > I am not entirely convinced the need is "legitimate", as this probably is > most useful for "snow-shoe" spam operations. > > This said, it is not clear that having snow-shoe spammers using Postfix > is any worse then snow-shoe spammers using Sendmail, Qmail, Exim or > various commercial engines... > > So long as the feature is reasonably useful to some non-spammers, we can > fight spam by means more effective than trying to deny them software...
I tend to agree. There are a lot of snowshoe OPs out there, and they're already using some smtp mailer engine successfully. I don't think this new feature is going to create a mad rush of spammers adopting Postfix just for this. -- Stan
