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Re: [LUG] SPAM ...

 

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Simon Waters wrote:

Gordon Henderson wrote:

Hmmm... maybe time to flick the SPF
switch..

SPF is broke by design. It causes all sorts of trouble with perfectly
reasonable email ways of handling email, I see these even when we aren't
using SPF.

I know and I'm usually the first one to rubbish it too, but I did read something recetly about 53% of mail hosts use it now - it'd need to be 100% to be effective though...

There are easier ways to spot if someone is spoofing your own address to
you ;)

Indeed - easy for me - but I have customers who're so thick...

Wietse gives a good method of how to deal with backscatter if it is ever
an issue on the Postfix site.

That leaves folk trying impersonate you, and the best way to deal with
them is encryption.

Or extermination.

Gordon

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