Hi, yeah, SPF isnt necessarily going to make a huge difference to everyone, but its one and only goal to to detect email with a spoofed/forged from address which is why I said i thought it would be effective in reducing the issue at hand. Actually I missread the email below slightly :P appologies, actually SPF needs to be implemented on the domains which are being targeted by the spammer as forged "from" addresses, if not already, and Grant needs to make sure he has something on Exim that will check SPF (ie spamassisin or I believe theres is a modded exim which natively supports it). Anyway, really its designed to combat this type of thing so I think its gota be worth sticking in,
thanks Andy. ----- Original Message ----- > If you haven't done so already you should implement SPF for all domains > for which you send email. To be effective this also relies > on the recieving side server supporting SPF but its pretty widespread so > should have a very positive impact on your problem if > you arent already using it. >> >> Matt, Peter and all, >>No these are backscatter bounces. >>Non existent addresses on my server(s) are being sent SPAM with forged >>remote 'From:' addresses. Then, those spams are being bounced to the >>remote address' (from my servers)! >>-Grant > -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
