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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 22:19:06 +0200
From:      Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
To:        "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@colltech.com>
Cc:        keith@mail.telestream.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: Spoofed mail
Message-ID:  <147471762338.20000606221906@buz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006061513200.10776-100000@psasolar.private.psa.pencom.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006061513200.10776-100000@psasolar.private.psa.pencom.com>

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Hello James,

> POP Before SMTP is a good way to do this.  Force the users to comlete a
> valid POP transaction before accepting mail from that host.  Sendmail,
> Postfix, and I'm guessing QMail all support this, with varying degrees
> of difficulty.

ACK. We use this here with great success (qmail + vpopmail
environment). I can only recommend it especially if you do webhosting.
With dialup clients, the problem isn't that big as they're IPs are
always in your own nets...




Best regards,
 Gabriel




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