From: Wietse Venema on
ed:
> can someone beat me with a clue bat to get me started in the right
> direction to best practice to stop; " root+:|" exploits
> (or is this something that I should move over to spam-l, or some other spot?

You run an MTA that is immune against such attacks (such as Postfix),
and you do the same with other mail handling software.

Wietse

From: ed on
On 05/08/2010 06:50 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> ed:
>
>> can someone beat me with a clue bat to get me started in the right
>> direction to best practice to stop; " root+:|" exploits
>> (or is this something that I should move over to spam-l, or some other spot?
>>
> You run an MTA that is immune against such attacks (such as Postfix),
> and you do the same with other mail handling software.
>
> Wietse
>
>
thank you (for all of those points).