MS and Sendmail work together on Spam Solution

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.

Comments

Ironic

[Outsorcerer]

.. that this had to happen now. I ve been experiencing exchange outages due to some vague bug in store.exe. seems to be ating up 100% of CPU time. If they can build something that can clear out these bugs, i might consider continuing with exchange.

Vulnerability fix?

[Recovering Anonymous]

I wonder if these fixes will correct The 'Outlook Blank Folding' vulnerablity? Better yet I wonder if the fix is to get rid of Outlook Express.

Here's an idea--RTFA, editors

[bonch]

Seeing as how there is no alliance between MS and Sendmail at all.

If we're not getting dupes three times from Taco, we're getting completely wrong headlines--or worse, biased ones ("Microsoft Violates Human Rights In China" anyone?).