Do not allow some ids to authenticate
Jim Howell
jwh2 at cornell.edu
Tue Oct 22 09:39:08 EDT 2013
Hi,
Thanks. We do a lot of that already and I was just hoping I'd missed
something in the access DB possibilities. I'm just looking at all
possible options. Thanks.
Jim
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Jim Howell
Cornell University
CIT Infrastructure, Unified Comm.
Msging Group, Lead Email Specialist
email: jwh2 at cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-9369
On 10/22/13 9:35 AM, "Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz"
<jose-marcio.martins at ensmp.fr> wrote:
>On 10/22/2013 03:11 PM, Jim Howell wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Thanks for the response. One question however. The "spammer at aol.com"
>> that is the envelope from, correct? We offer an authenticated server
>>for
>> people to use to send email via a fat client such as Thunderbird. The
>> problem I'm trying to solve is to refuse their connection when they
>> authenticate and not at the envelope from, aka earlier in the SMTP
>> session. We unfortunately have too many people with compromised
>> credentials using the service. Thanks.
>
>Don't know about your domain, but this equality isn't usually valid, and
>you shouldn't reject
>messages just based on this.
>
>There are other ways to solve your problem. On of them is to do rate
>limits, based on connection
>rate/message rate or recipient rate, to avoid spam being sent. Take a
>look at :
>
> http://www.j-chkmail.org/wiki/doku.php/doc/howto/outgoing_spam
>
>the idea is there, using our filter, but you can implement it with others
>if you prefer.
>
>To avoid accounts being compromised you can, e.g., reject outgoing
>messages (with credentials) being
>sent to some database of phishers reply adresses. Take a look at
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/anti-phishing-email-reply-discuss/topics
>
>
>
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