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Does SPF Really Help Curtail Forged Email Headers?

Posted by Cliff on from the keeping-your-domain-out-of-spam-headers dept.

Intelopment asks: "My Domain name has recently been used a lot in the 'Reply' field by some inconsiderate spammer, and my ISP has suggested that I consider using the Open SPF service as a way to stop spammers from using my domain name for in their mail headers field. From what I can tell, it requires the receiving mail server to actually participate in the SPF service, which is where I have my doubts. Does anyone have any experience with this service? Does it work? Are many ISPs using Open SFP?"

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  1. Re:It does help, but... by MarsDefenseMinister · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The increase in bounces started a bit more than a week ago. I've noticed it at my domains too.

    The problem now isn't the spam, it's the morons who send bounce notifications to forged e-mail addresses. It's the morons who set vacation autoresponders. It's the morons who ask for human confirmation that the mail isn't spam. It's the virus scanners that send their crap to forged e-mail addresses.

    Why don't people realize that the word "Symantec" in an e-mail is for me a 100% indication that the mail is from a Russian cocksucker? Or a "Macaffe" in the header is probably from some slant-eye who can't administer his windows box on a giant Korean spam network conduit? Talk about fucking a brand name. Just hearing the word "Symantec" gives me hives these days.

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