Paul G. Allen wrote: >.. > Unfortunately many mail servers don't even comply with the protocols > SMTP has. If one sets up their server to check all connections for > proper protocol, then a lot of mail would never get through, even > legitimate mail. My server does a lot of checking before a message > transfer is allowed, which eliminates 90% of the crap. If I configure a > couple more things in the process, then probably a lot of legitimate > e-mail from people I want mail from would not get through because their > mail servers are mis-configured.
>.. > I've thought about configuring my randomlogic.net mail such that no one > can send me mail through it without following all SMTP protocols to the > letter. It already blocks a lot of crap, but it could be configured to > block even more. Doing this I may not even need any spam filter. It might be interesting to see a list of commonly seen protocol violations. Do you have such a thing, or just a bullet list of things you have configured your server to check for, and the additional things you might consider? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
