full-disclosure - VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder

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From: lcamtuf at ghettot.org (Michal Zalewski)
Subject: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Richard M. Smith wrote:

> Does anyone know why Verisign has set up a fake SMTP server at their
> SiteFinder service to bounce email messages sent to misspelled or
> expired domain names?

Because otherwise, all the mail traffic would sit in the queues for days
before being bounced. Admittably, they can also use it to gather
information about senders and recipients... but that's old news.

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