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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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  2. After A While In The Works... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yahoo has actually been planning this for quite some time now, as their users, as seen in the link about 11 words ago, have been quite vocal about their problems with spam.

    1. Re:After A While In The Works... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No problem man, just helping out where I can.

    2. Re:After A While In The Works... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      How'd this get modded offtopic?

  3. Re:FAUILRE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NEIN MEIN HERREN!

  4. Sadly, more spammers use this than legit sites by leonbrooks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The trouble with apathy is that nobody does anything about it. Even I used to be apathetic, but I've long since given up worrying about it.

    --
    Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
  5. Storage by BabyJaysus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Um... my storage has not changed from 100 MB to 250 MB. Am I missing something? - Do I need to actually RTFA?

  6. Should be free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Saying that music should be free because it is easy to copy is like saying you should be dead because you're so easy to kill

  7. Re:PGP Signing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yes, you are wrong

  8. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TROLL

  9. cheers! netscape is being revived ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    based on the firefox's popularity they have plans to revive netscape - check the news - somebody pls post it here in /.

    http://www.betanews.com/article/Netscape_Revived _W ith_Firefox_Backing/1100641540

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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?

  13. 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.

  14. 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.