[xmail] Re: validating email address - idea 2

2004-02-04 Thread Gustavo Galvan
El Mar 03 Feb 2004 07:57, Terry L Fritts escribi=F3: Tuesday, February 3, 2004 you wrote: CF This is not good since many domains don't allways have complete A CF or =3D cname records for all of they sending computers (mta ou mua) CF ... Remember many legitimate mail can come indirectly from

[xmail] Re: validating email address - idea 2

2004-02-04 Thread Tracy
At 06:07 2/4/2004, Gustavo Galvan wrote: El Mar 03 Feb 2004 07:57, Terry L Fritts escribi=F3: Tuesday, February 3, 2004 you wrote: CF This is not good since many domains don't allways have complete A CF or =3D cname records for all of they sending computers (mta ou mua) CF ... Remember

[xmail] Re: validating email address - idea 2

2004-02-04 Thread Philip Kilner
Hi Gustavo, Gustavo Galvan wrote: If we can't validate a sender, anyone can setup a mail server and send em= ail=20 with a false identity (like virus does). Have you a idea to solve this ? (Thinking aloud...and not seen all of earlier threads) - I don't think we can validate the

[xmail] Re: validating email address - idea 2

2004-02-04 Thread Terry L Fritts
Hello Gustavo, Wednesday, February 4, 2004 you wrote: GG If we can't validate a sender, anyone can setup a mail server and send em= GG ail=20 GG with a false identity (like virus does). GG Have you a idea to solve this ? You work with what you have and SMTP has limitations. You can

[xmail] Re: validating email address - idea 2

2004-02-02 Thread Tracy
At 18:37 2/2/2004, Tracy wrote: At 17:12 2/2/2004, Gustavo Galvan wrote: Ok, accepting email from only authorized MX is, by now, a crazy idea because the biggers free email servers do not use them. Well, you know, that's interesting. I do MX checks on RHS of MAIL FROM for all mail received, and

[xmail] Re: validating email address - idea 2

2004-02-02 Thread Gustavo Galvan
El Lun 02 Feb 2004 20:42, Tracy escribi=F3: At 18:37 2/2/2004, Tracy wrote: At 17:12 2/2/2004, Gustavo Galvan wrote: Ok, accepting email from only authorized MX is, by now, a crazy idea because the biggers free email servers do not use them. Well, you know, that's interesting. I do MX