This raises a question with regards to address harvesting and dictionary
attacks on imail:
Does Declude (or any other option) reduce or prevent address harvesting and
dictionary attacks?

The basic question is: Is having a legit email address (discovered by a dictionary attack) sufficient to deliver spam to that address? Indiscutably, no. So don't sweat harvesting.


The real problem with harvesting is very high delivery rates directly into a mailbox server, exhausting resources.

The best harvesting defense of a mailbox server is an MX box absorbing the attack and passing only msgs to known users on the mailbox server.

Imail nobody@ aliases are obviously serious vulnerabilities.

Len


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