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MS and Sendmail work together on Spam Solution

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here's-hoping dept.

fudgefactor7 writes "Powerhouse software vendor Microsoft and the venerable Sendmail, have formed an alliance to launch a sender authentication plug-in which is hoped will combat email fraud and spam. The plug-in lets organisations verify a message's source before accepting it by automatically checking to see if an email came from where it claims it did. Could this be a sign of the beginning of the end of spam?" Update: 02/26 08:01 GMT by S : Though Microsoft and Sendmail are both working on solutions, there's no official alliance in place between the companies.

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  1. Once again, Microsoft innovates by Rogerborg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And, after years of whining and in-fighting and bitching and doing nothing constructive FOSS zealots will emulate this new de facto standard. Frankly, I hope MS patent this out the wazoo and make GPL lunixtics beg to be allowed to play.

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  2. Re:Submitter and Editor didn't RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, yeah. Editor is CmdrTaco, who never reads anything. The guy dups his own stories.

  3. Boycott sendmail by Big+Nothing · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Does this mean we have to start hating sendmail now?

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