HI,

>> I've received a handful of messages that appear to be facebook
>> notifications, but fail SPF. They otherwise look completely legit -
>> links to profiles, only URLs to facebook.com and CDN caching sites,
>> and even appears to have been routed through facebook's outgoing mail.
>>
>> All of that could be faked, but it would mean the payload is in the
>> actual facebook profiles themselves. Has anyone else found this to be
>> the case?
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/jE8G5LXJ
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>
> I would say that because it passes DKIM with a signature from
> facebookmail.com, it's likely legitimate and they just suck at SPF (wouldn't
> be the first time a multi-billion dollar company can't get anti-forgery
> right). The rDNS of cox.net seems odd for a CDN, but there's not really any
> standard and I don't know offhand if that's the hostname format they use or
> not.

Perhaps then it's worth evaluating KAM_FACEBOOKMAIL for stricter
control on facebook alerts?

Thanks,
Alex

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