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Article #49Re: fingering e-mail addresses
From: Tim Hogard
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 00:00
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Thomas Reinke (reinke@e-softinc.com) wrote: : And unless i miss my guess (tested this on Sendmail on RedHat 5.2), : the default install always responds with a 250 OK, even if the : address is not valid. So does our ISP (8.8.7, 8.9.1 respectively). : In fact, of the 3 mail servers on which I am _allowed_ to : play on, none of them will provide userid existence acknowledgement : in real-time. : Cheers, Thomas With my domain name of abnormal.com I end up having lots of people use fake names in my domain. I wish a few of these spamers would use vrfy becuase I'll be happy to tell them which address aren't valid on my servers if it would cut down on the other traffic. What sendmail needs is a "expn" and "vrfy" that only works the current way from 127.0.0.1 and other from other sites sleeps 5 seconds and then says address ok or not. That way its useable but a pain to use to get spam lists. -tim http://web.abnormal.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10952f,23199f1e3f0d22e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10952f,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,23199f1e3f0d22e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: 1090e7,37552a33cbddf452 X-Google-Attributes: gid1090e7,public From: thogard@not.abnormal.com (Tim Hogard) Subject: Re: fingering e-mail addresses Date: 1999/09/06 Message-ID: <7qv7br$g13@not.abnormal.com> X-Deja-AN: 521510972 References: <37CB6A34.7178@cygnus.uwa.edu> <7qqnji$q2l$1@lios.apana.org.au> <37d985c4.7783654@news.earthlink.net> <distler-0409992051420001@192.168.0.1> <37D21508.6828@cygnus.uwa.edu> <distler-0509990250210001@192.168.0.1> <m37lm57ew4.fsf@ft193216227195.dep.no> <37D27ACE.B9548F91@e-softinc.com> Organization: Abnormal.com Followup-To: aus.net.mail,aus.computers,comp.security.unix Newsgroups: aus.net.mail,aus.computers,comp.security.unix