Re: sid-milter 0.2.1 questions

[michael <mi...@ap...>]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, michael wrote:
>> I understand better now.. If its to a nonexistent user Sid-Milter does not
>> do any checks.
>
> Well, more accurately, it never gets to do any checks because the MTA
> never tells milter about those recipients.
>
>> The only time Sid-Milter does any checks is if the recipient is known...
>> if its from=<> or from=<somename@somehost> and is to a valid recpient
>> name.
>
> Correct.
>
>> If I am correct then dictionary attacks to nonexistent users will still
>> be an issue with the volume of info in the maillogs.
>
> Yes, that's correct, but is Sender ID really supposed to tackle that
> problem?

Good point.

Thanks,

Michael...

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