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Re: IETF Policy on dogfood consumption or avoidance - SMTP version

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Mon, 16 December 2019 21:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: IETF Policy on dogfood consumption or avoidance - SMTP version
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hi exceedingly esteemed friend glen :)

thanks for overly lucid clues.

>>   o what would the technical and/or security exposure or other
>>     downside(s) be of doing so?
> 
> Removing the rules would increase the load on Spamassassin and - for
> that subset of those 1000 messages per day that pass through
> Spamassassin's upper threshhold - cause us to send out challenge
> emails to the (potentially forged) senders of all of those emails.

/me does not like.  path to pain.

randy

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