> OTOH the flood of outscatter which started last September was stopped
> a week ago by the SEC[1], as any mail admin will have noticed.

I'm still seeing as much pump and dump spam as ever, but I'm not systematically collecting statistics.

> [1] The Stock Exchanges Commisssion of the USA [...]

Minor correction: Securities and Exchange Commission.

> They've got guns, money, and lawyers, and obviously have used them
> against those spammers who sent big loads of spam with forged
> (Envelope-)From.

Yes, but all they did was temporarily suspend trading in companies that were hyped in pump and dump spam. They didn't use their money, guns and lawyers to actually go after the spammers. See

http://sec.gov/news/press/2007/2007-34.htm

for details.

But to bring this back to topic, I would strongly recommend against qmail as an MTA. Both postfix and exim (and even sendmail) are better choices for many of the reasons that others have stated.

Cheers,

-j

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