[TriLUG] Another seal broken... thinking of installing a C/R anti-spam system

Brad Jorsch anomie at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Jan 29 10:58:22 EST 2007


On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:44:15AM -0500, jonc wrote:
> 
> On the bright side, if we move to T-SMTP (requiring authenticated SMTP
> drop offs) then you could trace the phisher back to his vessel and then
> rock his boat. 

Not really. The phisher isn't going to do things right, he'll just
pretend he's forwarding a message that was originally authenticated by
some random joe. Same as they forge Received headers now.

It'll catch zombies that send through the smarthost, though.



More information about the TriLUG mailing list