[Mimedefang] Black Listed

[Rob MacGregor]

>From: "Peter A. Cole" <peteracole at bigpond.com>
>
>On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 11:17:14 -0500 (EST)
>Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu at flashnet.it> wrote:
>
>
>As for a real solution to spam? I think in principal it's quite easy. No 
>mail server should accept mail from any mail server that is not correctly 
>configured. ie should have correct reverse MX records, reject mails with 
>forged headers, etc. If this was done, spamming would become irrelevant.

However, just because a host is listed to RECEIVE email doesn't mean it'll 
be used to SEND email.  Heck, take a look at any of the ISPs I've used, or 
even my domain host.  They have different hosts for incoming and outgoing 
email.

>Of course, this requires many changes to many mail servers, but at the end 
>of the day it would ensure a completely RFC compliant mail infrastructure, 
>thereby making spam easy to get rid of without the need to blacklist 
>anybody.

I don't remember ever seeing an RFC that says that only hosts defined with 
MX records may send email.  Maybe you could point it out :)


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