Mail.app incessantly crashing due to junk mail

[János]

On Mar 11, 2004, at 9:25 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

>
> On Mar 11, 2004, at 4:01 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:
>> 1) sender callout verification -- the MTA attempts to send a msg back 
>> to the sender, since spammers aren't real this fails and the junk 
>> mail never makes it past the RCPT TO part of the connection. You 
>> don't even need to see the data
>
> How does this differ from challenge-response? If I use 
> challenge-response and you use challenge-response, then doesn't this 
> totally break? I send an email to you, which results in me getting a 
> challenge which is actually put on hold - you get an email from my 
> system challenging you which is then also put on hold. So both of our 
> challenges are (virtually) on indefinite hold.
>
> Maybe the solution is to track down spammers, evacuate their house of 
> all occupants (including animals of course), and just bulldoze it. Or 
> how about an aerial assault and just blow it up?


Chris,

You should direct it to the experts.  Like the occupant at 1600 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500.  He really has some 
experience in blowing up things :)

János


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