24 Jan
2004
24 Jan
'04
3:33 a.m.
Jamie Baddeley wrote:
If however, it does, then it may choose to use SMTP after POP to let arbiturary IP's forward mail through it's legitment servers. Also rememeber that most of the 'big' email providers are web based, which means that this should work well for a good deal of forged addresses. ahh, but I believe that the 'big' spammers don't use http as an interface for a spam run.
My Point here was that spammers will no longer be able to send from a hotmail/yahoo/aol/etc address using an arbitrary open SMTP relay, which means they will have a harder time maintaining anonymity. James