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SPF alla Microsoft – sender ID

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There has been a lot of commotion in technical circles in the past week following on Microsoft's announcement that it was implementing Sender ID for hotmail. Microsoft's original plans for sender ID seemed to be quashed when the Open Source community, most notably the Apache Software Foundation, made it clear that they did not support Microsoft's implementation. The original MS … [Read more...] about SPF alla Microsoft – sender ID

Sendmail milters – not so open source anymore

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A couple of months ago I mentioned sendmail milters. Snert are no longer offering all of them under an open source license unfortunately. In some ways I can understand why they are doing it. Even programmers have to eat :) - however it is still sad to see software licenses changing like that. The milter we are using, milter-ahead, is still available as "Free Source", but … [Read more...] about Sendmail milters – not so open source anymore

New URI blacklists

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URIBL has recently launched with four new blacklists of URIs. The criteria are similar as those used by SURBL. There are four lists currently available: * black.uribl.com - Which is an aggresive list of known spammers. With a goal of zero False Positives. * grey.uribl.com - Which lists people who spam and have legitimate uses. This will cause False Positives for some depending … [Read more...] about New URI blacklists

More demented spam filters

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Today I discovered that Comodo had launched a "wonderful" new anti-spam product. It's great! It will stop all spam effectively. It will also stop any effective communication via email in the process, but surely that is a small price to pay for keeping your inbox clean? I think not. I tried to send a business email to them today but got this really "helpful" message back from … [Read more...] about More demented spam filters