For those of us that feel strongly that email should be a reliable transport medium.

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Tue Feb 10 22:28:06 GMT 2004


Hi!

> it opens up an attack route though. Someone could pile in mail containing
> the bounce header, and you would quietly delete it. So someone could DoS
> your mail servers without you being able to work out why. Not sure I want
> to do that.
> Thoughts?

Thats what we have logs for, the same applies for regular dos or
virus attacks on a mailer. We also drop those silently, whats the
difference ? :)

Bye,
Raymond.



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