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BugTraq
Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 16 2004 11:26AM R Armiento (rar_bt armiento se) (7 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 17 2004 05:27PM Joel Eriksson (je-secfocus bitnux com) (3 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 18 2004 08:57PM Jason Coombs (jasonc science org) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 18 2004 06:52PM PSE-L mail professional org (Sean Straw / PSE) RE: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 17 2004 02:18PM Aaron Cake (aaron vltpm com) (1 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 21 2004 01:23PM Chris Brown (chris wavetex com) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 17 2004 11:28AM David F. Skoll (dfs roaringpenguin com) (4 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Jun 22 2004 02:20PM Martin Maèok (martin macok underground cz) (2 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Jun 24 2004 07:15AM Valdis Kletnieks vt edu Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Jun 23 2004 12:53AM David F. Skoll (dfs roaringpenguin com) (2 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Jun 23 2004 10:46PM der Mouse (mouse Rodents Montreal QC CA) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Jun 23 2004 09:48PM PSE-L mail professional org (Sean Straw / PSE) (2 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Jun 25 2004 07:49PM der Mouse (mouse Rodents Montreal QC CA) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Jun 25 2004 05:35PM Seth Breidbart (sethb panix com) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 20 2004 01:52PM Luca Berra (bluca comedia it) (3 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 24 2004 08:32PM Michael A. Dickerson (mikey singingtree com) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 23 2004 05:07PM PSE-L mail professional org (Sean Straw / PSE) (2 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 24 2004 07:42PM The Fungi (fungi yuggoth org) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 24 2004 05:44PM John Fitzgibbon (bugtraq jfitz com) (1 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 25 2004 05:08AM PSE-L mail professional org (Sean Straw / PSE) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 19 2004 12:49AM Jon Fiedler (jmf9 cwru edu) (1 replies) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 19 2004 01:29AM David F. Skoll (dfs roaringpenguin com) RE: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 17 2004 08:26AM Hamlesh Motah (admin hamlesh com) Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Jun 17 2004 08:21AM Ilya Sher (ilya79 actcom net il) |
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> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, R Armiento wrote:
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> > However, 'C':s spam filter silently drops the email.
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> In my opinion, any spam filter that silently drops e-mail is broken, and
> is indeed a security risk. A spam filter MUST respond with a 500 SMTP
> failure code if it rejects a message.
A 4xx response code should also be acceptable in some cases (for
example, if an email is being rejected because the return address domain
doesn't resolve: which can only be treated as a temporary error).
The point is that the sender MUST eventually find out the mail didn't
get to it's intended recipient.
~Kyle
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