Re: [sniffer]Numeric spam

[Darin Cox]

They do, but you have to both specify that email for your domains only comes from your mail servers AND use a test in your spam filtering that checks SPF and pushes fails over your hold limit. Darin.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Computer House Support To: Message Sniffer Community Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [sniffer]Numeric spam I thought that having an SPF record would prevent a spammer from forging your domain name, but our SPF record did not seem to help with these odd numeric E-mails which appear to be coming from our own domain.   Does anyone have any info about SPF records and if they really work to combat this type of junkmail?     Michael Stein Computer House     ----- Original Message ----- From: Colbeck, Andrew To: Message Sniffer Community Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [sniffer]Numeric spam Both of which are reasonable, particularly given the recent Blue Security debacle that showed that it was possible for the spammers as well as the spammees to coordinate their information.  It might be in a spammer's best interest to pursue either of your suggestions.   However, I still think it is more credible to assume that this is a case of the spammer being simple-stupid instead of uber-clever.   Andrew 8)   From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John T (Lists) Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:26 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: Re: [sniffer]Numeric spam My thought is they are either building a db of valid names or testing delivery techniques.   John T eServices For You   "Seek, and ye shall find!"   -----Original Message----- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Guluk Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 3:46 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: Re: [sniffer]Numeric spam     On Jun 6, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Steve Guluk wrote: We're getting the same and today it started hitting a different account (Domain).   What are these things? I thought exploratory, maybe looking for replies to build a DB for a later spam wave? Their not malicious in content and look like someone's virus working incorrectly. But, I doubt they are really so benign.    Any understand their purpose?     On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:32 AM, Goran Jovanovic wrote: I started seeing these messages Monday (yesterday) morning EDT. The from and to are the same (ie you sent it to yourself). I am tagging it but there is not enough stuff to push it into DELETE territory.     So no one has any idea what the purpose of these emails are? Random numbers for no apparent reason...?   Regards,      Steve Guluk SGDesign (949) 661-9333 ICQ: 7230769