Re: Can we please refuse mail to the list from list addresses?

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can we please refuse mail to the list from list addresses?
Date: 2007-11-27 19:43:00
Message-ID: A810DB75211DB167660E02A1@ganymede.hub.org
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- --On Tuesday, November 27, 2007 20:24:07 +0100 Magnus Hagander
<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 14:57 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Nobody replied to my previous mail with this question, but spammers are
>> getting better.
>>
>> It seems to me we could reject mail that is destined to the list if it's
>> from the list address. No?
>
> Only Marc can do anything about that.
>
> In general, I'd say the postgresql.org mailservers shouldn't accept any
> mail (unauthenticated) that's from an @postgresql.org address. But IIRC
> someone was still relaying unauthenticated mail through there the last
> time I proposed that :-)

I do it all the time ... I send email as scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org, through my own
mail server here at home ...

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