[wellylug] Re: CA-CERT Assurance

[Enkidu]

Ah, gotcha!

Cheers,

Cliff

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 22:58:09 +1200, you wrote:

>It's a txt record with a particular name.
>
>There's no limit to the number of txt records you can have in a domain,
>you realise... :P
>
>Sam
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
>[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Enkidu
>Sent: Friday, 4 June 2004 9:56 p.m.
>To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
>Subject: Re: [wellylug] Re: CA-CERT Assurance
>
>
>Aaargh! But I use the txt records for other stuff!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Cliff
>
>On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:26:28 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>The general idea was to put a TXT record in your domain with a list of
>>addresses or netblocks that were allowed to transmit mail from an
>>@yourdomain.foo address.
>>
>>So when your smtp server receives a message, it can check that the
>>connecting address is listed in the record.  If it doesn't exist, the
>>message is more likely to be spam.
>>
>>It's not perfect, but it's by far one of the better ideas I've heard
>>recently.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
>>[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Enkidu
>>Sent: Friday, 4 June 2004 6:55 p.m.
>>To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
>>Subject: Re: [wellylug] Re: CA-CERT Assurance
>>
>>>Personally, I like Microsoft's DNS caller-id system as a solution for
>>>spam.  It requires no changes to existing protocols - it works
>>alongside
>>>standard SMTP and nothing forces you to test the validity.
>>
>>What that? Is it just requiring reverse lookup or is it more than
>>that? I did read it at the time, but it's slipped my mind.
>
>
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