[OT] SPF - Do you use it

2012-10-05 Thread Titanus Eramius
Slightly off topic. I hope it's OK when the mail is marked as such. I was just wondering if the users of this list use SPF in any way, and if so, to what extend? My former provider of mail added a header with the SPF-info retrived from DNS, and I'm considering to do the same with

Re: [OT] SPF - Do you use it

2012-10-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.10.2012 15:43, schrieb Titanus Eramius: Slightly off topic. I hope it's OK when the mail is marked as such. I was just wondering if the users of this list use SPF in any way, and if so, to what extend? yes because it is no additional work since our admin-backend adding them with a

Re: [OT] SPF - Do you use it

2012-10-05 Thread Reindl Harald
forgot to mention you should use BOTH types TXT and SPF thelounge.net. 43200 IN SPF v=spf1 ip4:91.118.73.0/24 ip4:89.207.144.27 -all thelounge.net. 43200 IN TXT v=spf1 ip4:91.118.73.0/24 ip4:89.207.144.27 -all _- TXT RR Format

Re: [OT] SPF - Do you use it

2012-10-05 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Titanus Eramius tita...@aptget.dk: Slightly off topic. I hope it's OK when the mail is marked as such. I was just wondering if the users of this list use SPF in any way, and if so, to what extend? We have considered SPF some five years ago but after second thought ditched it

Re: [OT] SPF - Do you use it

2012-10-05 Thread Alumno Etsii
2012/10/5 lst_ho...@kwsoft.de Zitat von Titanus Eramius tita...@aptget.dk: Slightly off topic. I hope it's OK when the mail is marked as such. I was just wondering if the users of this list use SPF in any way, and if so, to what extend? We have considered SPF some five years ago but

Re: [OT] SPF - Do you use it

2012-10-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.10.2012 16:04, schrieb lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: Zitat von Titanus Eramius tita...@aptget.dk: Slightly off topic. I hope it's OK when the mail is marked as such. I was just wondering if the users of this list use SPF in any way, and if so, to what extend? We have considered SPF some

Re: [OT] SPF - Do you use it

2012-10-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Alumno Etsii: As far as I'm concerned, SPF is not an anti-spam tool, but an anti-forgery tool. I'm ending this discussion before the flames flare up. Let's suffice with the following observation: SPF helps a sender and receiver who know each other. Otherwise it helps no-one. The

Re: [OT] SPF - Do you use it

2012-10-05 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 05.10.2012 15:43, schrieb Titanus Eramius: Slightly off topic. I hope it's OK when the mail is marked as such. I was just wondering if the users of this list use SPF in any way, and if so, to what extend? My former provider of mail added a header with the SPF-info retrived from DNS,

Re: [OT] SPF - Do you use it

2012-10-05 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net: Am 05.10.2012 16:04, schrieb lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: Zitat von Titanus Eramius tita...@aptget.dk: Slightly off topic. I hope it's OK when the mail is marked as such. I was just wondering if the users of this list use SPF in any way, and if so,

Re: [OT] SPF - Do you use it

2012-10-05 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org: Alumno Etsii: As far as I'm concerned, SPF is not an anti-spam tool, but an anti-forgery tool. I'm ending this discussion before the flames flare up. Let's suffice with the following observation: SPF helps a sender and receiver who know

Delayed greeting

2012-10-05 Thread Alumno Etsii
Hi! I've been looking for techniques to avoid SpamBot connections to the SMTP server (or at least to limit them or identify them easily). One of them was the 'Delayed greeting (220) procedure', as a big number of spambots start sending commands just after connecting, so this technique considers

Re: Delayed greeting

2012-10-05 Thread Jim Wright
On Oct 5, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Alumno Etsii wrote: Hi! I've been looking for techniques to avoid SpamBot connections to the SMTP server (or at least to limit them or identify them easily). One of them was the 'Delayed greeting (220) procedure', as a big number of spambots start sending

Re: Delayed greeting

2012-10-05 Thread Alumno Etsii
2012/10/5 Jim Wright j...@wrightthisway.com On Oct 5, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Alumno Etsii wrote: Hi! I've been looking for techniques to avoid SpamBot connections to the SMTP server (or at least to limit them or identify them easily). One of them was the 'Delayed greeting (220) procedure',