RE: [PIUG List] E-mail spoofing - apologies

From: C. Bullitt Darlington <bullitt_at_ptd.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:30:39 -0400

Alan:

One of the problems with that approach is that, for a variety of good
reasons, sometimes a user can have different email addresses with
different domain extensions that don't match the sending ISP portal.
For example, my local ISP is dejazzd.com. and while I have email
addresses that end in @dejazzd.com, I also have addresses that end in
@ptd.net and @we-buy-books.com that I append to emails that I send
through my local ISP (dejazzd.com)

I understand the need to stem spam but the tighter you restrict your
rules, the more that legitimate mail gets throttled.

Bullitt

>People who receive these spoofed emails should complain to their own
>ISPs or mail administrators.
>
>There is a setting in email servers that tells the server to reject
>emails when the IP address of the sending email server does not
>match the IP addresses of the domain name in the email address. I
>have this setting on in our mail server and have received none of
>the spoofed emails. (Because of this setting in combination with a
>feature called 'greylisting,' I receive little spam even though my
>email address is widely available on the Internet.)
>
>Alan Engel
>Paterra, Inc.
>Suite A24, 2-1-6 Sengen, Tsukuba
>Ibaraki 305-0047 Japan
>Email: aengel_at_paterra.com




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