Re: Welcome to the new(ish) ASRG list

Barry Shein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On March 17, 2013 at 02:10 [email protected] (Rob McEwen) wrote:
 > On 3/17/2013 1:50 AM, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
 > > and/or the reverse not match the From: domain
 > 
 > Then those systems are blocking massive amounts of legit mail because
 > massive amounts of legit mail is sent from IPs that have a valid rDNS,
 > yet where the domain in the rDNS doesn't match the "from" address. This
 > is really silly... many "shared hosting" environments are set up where
 > the sender (typically a small business hosting a web site there) is
 > using their hoster's mail server for sending mail.

Wasn't this problem solved by SpamAssassin's scoring approach, give it
a point or two for this and use a threshold, if there are no other red
flags let it through.


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        -Barry Shein

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