http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2004-01-24 15:20 -------
> Although perhaps resolving a name like the openbsdmailservers.com one
> above might confirm an email address, if the name contained the address in
> encoded form.  But still, I think it may be worthwhile (if optional,
> maybe).

I'm very concerned about this aspect.  Confirming email addresses is something
we cannot do.  What about just looking up the A/MX record for the domain itself
and checking those?  That should be safe.  Nobody is going to register one
domain per spam victim, but doing a one-way hash between hostname and user is
not too hard.  It doesn't have to be something that easily decodes into an
email address, it could just be an English word in a table, like:

  Hamlet -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Mouse  -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

etc.




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