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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.
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I posted an idea similar to this on slashdot which would essentially involve sendmail digitally signing messages that it sends and then having receiving mail servers verify it. I think most of the people who read the idea misinterpreted it as forcing us to get digital certs through verisign, which was NOT what I was implying.
See, now this is a much better idea than "email postage" and "computationally expensive" sending of email. This way, the accountability falls down to individual email addresses, and domains for sending UCE.
It's FAR easier to track emails and their likelyhood of sending spam than the actual messages themselves (after all, buyviagra@biggerpenis.org is most likely sending you spam).
This, combined with a spam filter could do the trick.
Congratulations Microsoft for actually partnering with somebody who matters is this whole affair. I'm hoping the other companies like Yahoo and AOL follow suit with this strategy, and a solution becomes standardized.
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Ut will need widespread acceptance to really work
And therein lies the problem. No vendor, no matter how well placed, should just run off and try to implement a solution. Why? Because odds are good it will not take off. Everyone involved needs to agree on a solution THEN implement it. With Micro$oft controlling it (Who will bet this won't work on linux), I don't think it'll work.
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Well said,
If the lame Outlook ws really a friend of the likes of Sendmail, this could have been implemented years ago,
the technology has been there
Could this be a sign of the beginning of the end of spam?
Could this be a sign of the beginning of the end of sendmail?
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Which is worse - that the submitter didn't read the article, that the Slashdot editors didn't read the article, or that most of the commenters didn't read the article?
Microsoft is NOT working with sendmail. They both happen to be working on ways to combat spam. That's not news, we all knew that already. Nowhere in that article does it say anything about cooperation.
I nearly fainted when I saw the headline, but sadly, it simply isn't true.
Laugh, it's intended to be funny. :-)
The next person who uses this phrase is going to get punched in the groin.
If you need to write things like that, don't bother to post here at all.
Hardly standard bearers for secure software....
Alex
With their combined expertise on preventing system exploitation, I'm SURE they will find a way to stop the spammers!
-R
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