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


  • From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
  • Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, 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: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:59:56 -0800
  • Message-id: <474EE1FC(dot)3070509(at)commandprompt(dot)com>

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:

- --On Thursday, November 29, 2007 13:53:06 +0100 Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

That one may be, but it's not like it's a *new* concept that you shouldn't
have end-users connecting and sending email on port 25...
Is anyone arguing that?  I always connect / send on port 25 ...

The IETF is.  What they are saying is that you are helping the spammers
by not using 587.


O.k. what I don't understand is, "how" are we helping spammers? It isn't like we allow relaying without auth.

Joshua D. Drake



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