Full Disclosure: Re: Strange Emails -- What are they?

[Pam Patterson <ppatters () cbnco com>]

Ademar Gonzalez wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Simon Smith <simon () snosoft com> wrote:
> > ok, that makes sense... will greylisting counter this?
> don't think graylisting will have much effect, each bot sending a few 
> mails.
Greylisting works by temporarily rejecting the first email from a sender 
at an ip address to a recipient, and then waiting the see if the sending 
mail server tries again as it should. If the server retries, the 
ip:sender:recipient tuple is added to a database and not delayed ever again.
Most spam-sending programs never retry, even with a temporary error.  So 
 greylisting would probably help in this case.
What would really help is SPF, if you can manage it. That way you can 
reject mail that claims to come from your domain but does not come from 
your mail servers.  But this is all a bit OT, not really full disclosure.
--
Pam

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