Scam-backscatter is a milter that prevents
backscatter on mail servers which don't host
mailboxes locally. It validates mailboxes by
verifying the recipient addresses hosted on a
different mail server.
Information regarding Project Releases and Project Resources. Note that the information here is a quote from Freecode.com page, and the downloads themselves may not be hosted on OSDN.
An IPv6 address is now supported for the SMTP backend. A hostname can be resolved to an IPv6 address A backoff feature has been added to limit connection attempts when a connection to the backend SMTP server cannot be established.
Scam-backscatter now supports fallback for the backend SMTP server with the FALLBACKEND feature. A bug in the USEMAILERTABLE feature left the BackSMTPPort unset. A HELOHOST feature has been added. The connection handling and the error logging have been improved.
A mistake in the makefiles and a bug in the subdomain text were fixed. The behavior when the backend SMTP server cannot be contacted is now configurable.