SMTP over IPv6 : gmail classifying nearly all IPv6 mail as spam since 20140818

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 20:27:09 CET 2014


On 03/11/2014 22:38, Bjørn Mork wrote:
...
> It just seems so pointless.  The dummy names will be longer than the
> address and will contain the exact same information.

Quite. It's idiotic. And if I was a paranoid mail operator, I would
put in some heuristic code to identify such dummy names and treat
them as if there was no PTR record, since they do nothing to actually
validate the source in any real way.

   Brian



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