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Yahoo! Mail Now Using Domain Keys To Fight Spam

Posted by timothy on from the also-makes-great-sushi dept.

scubacuda points out this CNET story, writing "In addition to beefing up its storage (100MB -> 250MB), Yahoo! Mail has implemented Domain Keys to find spam. The idea is simple: give email providers a way to verify the domain and integrity of the messages sent. Sendmail, Inc. has released an open source implementation of the Yahoo! DomainKeys specification for testing on the Internet and is actively seeking participants and feedback for its Pilot Program. Yahoo! has submitted the DomainKeys framework as an Internet Draft, titled 'draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01.txt,' for publication with the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). The patent license agreement can be found here."

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  1. OFF Topic! by Donny+Smith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF?

    Your posting is named "Spam and Patents" and there's not a single thing about spam (except in the subject).

    Your posting, Sir, is non-relevant and off-topic.

  2. Re:Is this going to help? by bs83 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Over the last several years spammers have been turning computers into zombies, and using them to send their spam. Soon lots of unsuspecting people will have their E-Mail shut down. Have we done anything at all to improve the situation? No, we just made it harder to communicate! The ONLY usefull thing is that we may be able to find the zombies.

  3. How to break DomainKeys by Ben+Hutchings · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Suppose someone sends a single message from one throwaway web-mail account to another, getting it signed on the way. Then suppose he spams the signed message via whatever mail servers he normally uses - ideally zombies that won't change the signed headers. Am I missing something, or does this make DomainKeys worthless?

  4. Postfix or Amavis? by koehn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm interested in using domainkeys (heck, I use SPF, I even greylist), but I'm unable to find an implementation for Postfix or Amavis. Is anybody working on an implementation? I saw the library that yahoo has, but I just don't have the time to code my own right now.

    I'd think an Amavis implementation would be ideal, since it scans everything anyway, and integrates with other mail servers so easily.

  5. Yahoo Mail looks horrible in Firefox by jvagner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Got the latest Firefox on FC3 and as of a week ago, or so, the left hand nav column shows up in the middle of the page, with a huge whitespace to the left.

    I've never had layout issues with Yahoo, but this makes it pretty useless for me. Anyone else have this issue?

    This is with a stock Firefox, no extensions.