Preventing backscatter with sendmail

Paul Welsh paul.welsh.3 at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 17 16:26:09 GMT 2009


> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:40:21 +0100
> From: shuttlebox <shuttlebox at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Preventing backscatter with sendmail
> 
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Paul Welsh 
> <paul at welshfamily.com> wrote:
> > I've been googling and from what I can see I have the 
> following options:
> >
> > milter-ahead - www.milter.info/sendmail/milter-ahead/
> > Mailfromd
> > scam-backscatter - www.elandsys.com/scam/scam-backscatter/
> > access.db
> > ldap lookups
> 
> This one is also popular:
> 
> http://smfs.sourceforge.net/smf-sav.html
> 
Hi Peter, thanks for that.  

I realise too that mailfromd doesn't really do what I want.  It does sender
verification but only local recipient verification by the looks of things.
I'm not bothered about sender verification, only recipient.

Sorry, sent the wrong subject out last time.  Here's the right one to aid
anyone searching threads in future.



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