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Re: Will New Sendmail Block Remailers?
John Young wrote:
> Markoff in the NYT reports today on the release of a new
> Sendmail upgrade by author Eric Allman that will block
> spam by checking the legitimacy of the originating address
> before delivery.
>
> The report claims that spam is up to 10% of e-mail worldwide,
> And that Sendmail is used on 75% of the computers that route
> e-mail, all of which are being fitted with the new program.
>
> What are the chances that this will affect remailers or other
> means of eternal anonymity?
>
> Except Sualk, GL, UB and Nuh, all of whom we now know
> are Otot GinPu Tca as those crazy Syug Irtmid Irun.
WRT remailers, sendmail only checks the validity of a domain.
So if a "From " address is "[email protected]", the message
would be passed on.
I have read the Sendmail announcement from sendmail.org. The new version
is very nice and friendly to everyone except spam relayers.
- Igor.