On Thursday 08 July 2004 18:04, Bryan Phinney wrote: > For anyone that owns their own domain and runs their own Mail server. > Have you ever been the victim of a joe-job where some slimy > spambucket forges your domain name in his from during a spam run and > you suddenly get inundated with complaints and bounces? Ever asked > if anything could be done about that and been told no? Well, pretty > soon you will be able to do something about it. > > Sender Policy Framework is currently being pushed and adopted by a > lot of big name ISP's. The way it works is, as the domain owner, you > publish a txt record in your DNS that identifies the authorized mail > servers for your domain. At the recipient mail server level, they do > a lookup on the domain in the From and match it with the Client IP > address. If it doesn't match an authorized mail server from the SPF > record, they know the mail is not legit and dump it. > > If you are interested, find details at http://spf.pobox.com. > > BTW, I have implemented this on my box, very easy, took about 10 > minutes and it is working like a champ. Once this starts to spread, > we may very well see a huge reduction in spam. Thanks for the info and good luck it sounds like something that needed to be done. -- Regards; Hoyt
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