David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 13:12 +0100, Alan Hicks wrote:
>> Tommy Phipps wrote:
>>> Our company is receiving spoofed emails using our domain name along
>> with
>>> many combinations of user names.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if Exim can be set up to detect these spoofed messages
>> to keep
>>> them from being passed to Exchange.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>>
>>> Tommy Phipps
>> Yes,  I'm using the experimental Sender Policy Framework and it works 
>> well for this scenario.  I used to get spoofed mail for most of the 
>> domains I manage. Now they are stopped when they say who they are 
>> sending as.
> 
> Yes, but unfortunately SPF blocks _valid_ mail too. But let's not repeat
> that debate again. The facts are obvious enough to anyone who actually
> thinks about it for a while. http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html
> 

I agree that SPF is not without its issues but for the domains I manage 
it is an effective solution that has:
- reduced spam by about 10%;
- reduced the traffic I receive because the mail is rejected before the 
body is sent;
- is rejected with a clear reason so anyone who is genuinely trying to 
send an email can address the issue through other channels;
- to date, no one has identified any mail that has been incorrectly 
blocked to any of the organisations I manage.

For me and the organisations I manage it works well.

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