MS and Sendmail work together on Spam Solution

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @03:22AM 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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Re:I see why MS did it by Steepe · 2004-02-24 03:30 · Score: 2, Troll

qmail does suck, I just switched our mail system to postfix. works MUCH better, and works with ssl/tls much easier.

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Re:Perspective.... by u-235-sentinel · 2004-02-24 03:41 · Score: 0, Troll

What's really amazing is the problem with spam is so bad that Microsoft is working with other's to finally resolve it.

Unbelivable. I guess they couldn't handle the competition :-)

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