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Runaway & your Mercury config
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| madmax@none.non 2006-09-23, 1:15 am |
| Runaway, I'd suggest that you disable the VRFY command on your Mercury MX.
Most every MX has that command disabled these days, as anti-spam. The
reasons are:
- a spammer can use that to try and verify common usernames, such as
admin@... etc
- even if the spammer can't verify addresses, his machine might leech onto
yours for some period as it tries a long list - and so he uses up your
bandwidth etc
Also, let me join those who have thanked you for providing your remailer
for us to use. And for FULL FROM HEADERS 
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This message was posted via one or more anonymous remailing services.
The original sender is unknown. Any address shown in the From header
is unverified.
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| Runaway Remailer Admin 2006-09-23, 7:13 am |
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<madmax@none.non> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:L4F87NNF38983.2951967593@anonymous.poster...
> Runaway, I'd suggest that you disable the VRFY command on your Mercury MX.
>
> Most every MX has that command disabled these days, as anti-spam. The
> reasons are:
>
> - a spammer can use that to try and verify common usernames, such as
> admin@... etc
>
> - even if the spammer can't verify addresses, his machine might leech onto
> yours for some period as it tries a long list - and so he uses up your
> bandwidth etc
>
> Also, let me join those who have thanked you for providing your remailer
> for us to use. And for FULL FROM HEADERS
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> This message was posted via one or more anonymous remailing services.
> The original sender is unknown. Any address shown in the From header
> is unverified.
>
>
I have now disabled the SMTP verify. Thanks for advising me, I wasn't aware
that - if enabled - this facilitates spammers life.
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