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[Aumont - Comite Reseaux des Universites <address@concealed>]

Yavuz Sert wrote:

> for example i have a function called mailsend. 
> (mailsend(from,to,mailhost,subject,body))
>
> and my script is : 
>
> for i = 0 to 100000
> from = "emailaddress@concealed"
> call mailsend (from , "address@concealed" , "mailserver" ,
> "sub sympa-users" , "")
> next
>
> is there any way to protect the server from this?
>  
Yes there is : configure the list in order to request authentification. 
Authentication can be based on S/MIME or email confirmation request. In 
the futur, we will introduce some MASS (1) technologies into Sympa both 
for authentication checking and prove message issued by Sympa.  MASS Is 
the name of a working group where DomainKeys, IIM, METAsignature etc are 
discussed. All are designed for message authentication using signature 
technologies in the context of spam war.

Serge Aumont

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Yes I'am tired of spam, and I think that this kind of message footer 
added by some mail providers is a sort of spam because it use mailing 
lists for large distribution. Should we include in Sympa a detection of 
this kind of advertisement ?

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