State of the art spam control?

[G. Matthew Rice]

Ivan Avery Frey <ivan.frey-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> When I receive mail on my imap inbox at the University of Toronto, I am
> trasparently authenticated to use the smtp server assigned to me because they
> remember the ip that accessed the imap server.
> 
> The only annoyance is that it times out every now and then which is usually
> avoided by doing a get mail before I send mail.
> 
> But of course this would be subject to a man in the middle attack, but for
> now it doesn't appear to be a problem.
> 
> Is such a solution feasible in Linux?

Yes but not recommended.  For example, there's smtp-after-pop and
smtp-after-imap.  They just watch log files for successful imap/pop
connections and then adjust the MTA's configuation.

It's better to just use authenticated SMTP.

HTH,
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