[ILUG] Eircom spam

FRLinux frlinux at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 13:13:59 GMT 2009


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Lars Hecking
<lhecking at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>  Considering the amount of spam I get from the likes of gmail and yahoo, SPF
>  is pretty useless anyway.

Well that was my point, most organisations do not enforce SPF yet. I
am not saying it is useless, i am just saying that until other
providers come together to enforce it, it will be difficult to be the
only one enforcing SPF. Take google:

_spf.google.com.	300	IN	TXT	"v=spf1 ip4:216.239.32.0/19
ip4:64.233.160.0/19 ip4:66.249.80.0/20 ip4:72.14.192.0/18
ip4:209.85.128.0/17 ip4:66.102.0.0/20 ip4:74.125.0.0/16
ip4:64.18.0.0/20 ip4:207.126.144.0/20 ip4:173.194.0.0/16 ?all"

As stated here: http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax

"?"	Neutral
Neutral	The SPF record specifies explicitly that nothing can be said
about validity	accept

Steph



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