Ron DuFresne <dufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
how about the smtp server simply rejecting mail from spoofed hosts ? as all the viruses generate spoofed hosts and it is very easy for any smtp server to do a dns lookup on the sending server, if the hostname / ip address do not match reject the message.
Finally some sanity marks this thread!
"sanity"??
Care to define the "nearly foolproof" "spoofed hosts detection" algorithm that will not have an unbearably high false-positive rejection rate??
Regards,
Nick FitzGerald
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