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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. Simple... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No.

  2. Re:Will it stop people like Space Cowboy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Cute. Check the timestamps, jackass.

  3. Smelly ASS by DOCStoobie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Spam is lika a smelly ass, no matter what is tried, there will ALWAYS be smelly ass on this planet..

  4. Spammers should be forced.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..to look at this website until their eyes bleed. No, really. They deserve it.

  5. Totally offtopic but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I went to Ikea and had to poo but these stupid Swedish assholes bolted all the toilets shut.

  6. Re:Submitter and Editor didn't RTFA by curtoid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Reminds of the issue of concurrent vs. parallel processes in "operating systems" class...

    Half the class couldn't get the idea the first day and it was probably due to the instructor's weak teaching ability...

  7. Ironic by Outsorcerer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    .. 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.

  8. Vulnerability fix? by Recovering+Anonymous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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    There's no shame in being a pariah. -Marge Simpson
  9. Here's an idea--RTFA, editors by bonch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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?).