RE: Marc: use SPF to prevent backscatter? Was RE: [AMaViS-user] Q about mail proxy servers and setups

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> If whoever's responsible for the proxy is not able to
> implement normal recipient validation, I think this makes a
> good case that they aren't able to keep it running adequately.

Its worse, we have to feed it to 'yap' (yet another proxy) and THAT proxy also does no recipient validation, so I can send it ANYTHING. Sure is a mess, and yes, you guessed it, I can't touch anything.

Its: fix our fubar, but you can't touch anything, and we expect miracles with the box you put in, even if we have crappy policies, have a messed up proxy sending you email, (but, hey, our first proxy will drop emails that have host only (not FQDN) helo lines).

Oh, one more thing. They want us to out of the DMZ to the final proxy which is behind yet another router, but we won't put a route in the router to do it.

Not much I can do, all that had good suggestions, I will write this up, and thanks also to everyone who has been in this situation before and understood.

(I remember years ago in the nama-email group in the mid 90's, all the morons who keep yelling at the uninitiated 'get a anti-spam isp', and telling them they don't care if there is only one isp in the state. )

Its now pretty much people who don't know anything yelling at people who know less.