Re: Can we please refuse mail to the list from list addresses?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can we please refuse mail to the list from list addresses?
Date: 2007-11-27 19:38:41
Message-ID: 20071127113841.5ea1889d@commandprompt.com
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:24:07 +0100
Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 14:57 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Nobody replied to my previous mail with this question, but spammers
> > are getting better.
> >
> > It seems to me we could reject mail that is destined to the list if
> > it's from the list address. No?
>
> Only Marc can do anything about that.
>
> In general, I'd say the postgresql.org mailservers shouldn't accept
> any mail (unauthenticated) that's from an @postgresql.org address.
> But IIRC someone was still relaying unauthenticated mail through
> there the last time I proposed that :-)

Wouldn't that break when I send @postgresql through @commandprompt?

Joshua D. Drake

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