John Rudd wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
Derek Harding wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
I don't understand why you think SAV is a louse anti-forgery tool.
It forces spammers to have to find real email addresses to forge.
So here's a little thought experiment for you.
As you know more and more spam is sent by botnets from compromised
machines. Those bots know a range of valid addresses because they're
pulling them out of addressbooks on the local machines (they're also
sending to those same addresses btw).
So - let's say you don't use SAV. You accept the message not knowing
that it's from a fake address. Then you have to spam filter it. If
if fails, it creates a bounce.
No. You do your spam filtering during the SMTP session, using a
milter or something similar. If it scores as spam, then you reject it
during SMTP.
So, no, it doesn't create a bounce. Only an idiot would bounce a
message for being spam.
Or if you are using something that doesn't easily support prefiltering
then you can deliver with spam markup.
Do not ever bounce! Ever! I can not stress this enough.
blah.
Night folks!
Rick
