[vtkusers] Kitware mail server security...

[Charl P. Botha]

Antoine ROSSET wrote:


>>Because you're sending emails from a verizon.net DSL ip-number, i.e. not
>>a recognized MTA hostname/ip-number.  This is a valid and unfortunately
>>necessary requirement for helping to filter out spam.
> 
> 
> Yes, but I'm NOT spam!!!!!!
> 
> This means simply one thing: These software DON'T work... And you should not
> use them.... Simple...
>

How should the server know that your mails are not spam?  What if I (the 
evil spammer) were to send emails from *my* DSL IP-number with YOUR name 
and email in the From: field?

The server unfortunately has no way to authenticate the sender of the 
email, so it has to be strict with regards to the originating IP-number.

We only have the spammers to thank for these measures...

-- 
charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/