Sunday, Nov 29, 2015 10:11 PM John Levine wrote:
> Spam filters have been doing Received chain analysis for about 20
> years.

Yes, I know.   A friend of mine founded a company that worked using this 
principal.   Unfortunately, it got less and less effective as spammers got 
better and better at faking things.   The reason I asked for recent experience 
is that I'm curious if anyone is _still_ getting real benefit from this.

Since the only header-field you can actually trust is the first one that your 
own MTA adds, SPF works just as well (actually, a _lot_ better) as a validation 
mechanism.   If SPF isn't in use, the sender can just claim to be a legitimate 
agent for the source domain, and you have no way to check that claim.


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