Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT)
Luke Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these
rules[*], use
of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely
prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you.
I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week.
My mail provider publishes SPF records.
SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp
level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate
backscatter not improve it.
Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a cogent
argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope that spammers
will check that their spam is spf compliant.
I feel the same way and thanks for adding some humor to the situation.
Most spammers aren't aiming to generate back-scatter as their primary
means of disseminating their spam, so they'll do what they can to get
the best chance of a successful delivery. That means sending SPF
compliant e-mails where possible. It's actually quite simple for
them to filter out SPF protected addresses from their target lists,
so they do tend to do that, and it's typically the same list of
target addresses they use for forged senders too. It's telling that
both having a correct SPF record and having no SPF record at all
have a zero score in SpamAssassin (ie. neutral) whereas
non-compliance scores lots of spam points.
Also see my point earlier about rejecting messages during the SMTP
dialogue. SPF is easy to check early and lets you reject messages
before acknowledging receiving them, which means a lot fewer bounce
messages to (probably forged) sender addresses.
Thanks, Matthew.
That I've not done due to the possibility of rejecting legit email.
I'm going to revisit that decision.
ed
Cheers,
Matthew
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