Re: Checking for NO UCE in smtp banner

[Technical Support, Stalker Labs]

Hello,

On Sun, Aug 26, 2001, 18:50:38 GMT
  Joe Wagner, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi all,
>       I have a question stemming from a couple of discussion
>threads going on in few other mailing lists.  It's just hypothetical,
>and presumably Dmitry would be able to answer it off the top of his
>head.  How long would it take to add to SIMS a check for a "NO UCE"
>string in the SMTP banner of the mail servers it connects with when
>sending a message. There are free list cleaners that have been around
>since mid-1998 (http://www.cauce.org/proposal/smtp-banner.shtml),
>with source code.
>        This is of course NOT a feature request, I just want to be
>able to say with high confidence how quick it would be for spammers
>to make their direct mail rat-ware check for the notice. My strong
>suspicion is that it'd take a competent programmer under 30 minutes
>to add the code for the check and the "mail not sent" bounce message
>routine.

Yes, implementing that check would not be a problem.

But I'm afraid I don't see the point yet why this should be implemented in SIMS.

Best regards,
Dmitry Akindinov

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