On Tue, 27 May 2003, Charles Frolick wrote: > Just read through a lengthy discussion on another list about this very > feature which was just implimented on the other MTA I use as a spam > prevention. Some points broght up are that it can never be trusted as a > true yes or no, both have false positive potential, and that repeated > sessions of this type from your MTA may end up being treated as a low > impact dictionary attack against the remote MTA, casusing your server to > be blacklisted. If you saw multiple dataless sessions from a remote MTA > to invalid and valid accounts, what would you think they were doing?
I did not invent this thing by myself, it is currently used by other MTA. Honestly, I do not believe it is really a good idea since dropping a good address instead of a fake one does not take much. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
