On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Mark Horn wrote: > I use SPF, too. IMHO, it's not widely deployed enough to protect the > envelope sender. Which means that 99% of legit email addresses in my > whitelists can be forged through the envelope sender just as easily > as From: or Reply-To:. For the other 1% SPF doesn't always help.
One of the main reasons I use SPF is to eliminate spam claiming to be from my domain. After all, users in my domain are whitelisted. > Back to the subject at hand: I have not seen forging of whitelist > email addresses to be a source of *any* spam that I've received. > So, whether the forged address is in the Reply-To: or From: or > envelope sender has made no difference from my perspective. > > Are other seeing differently? Yes. Not lots but some. Some of them I save in a spam folder. I count 16 last year in my spam folder, but then there was 6 last week. (now its got my attention) At least SPF drops the ones that forge the envelope too. -- Tim Rice Multitalents (707) 887-1469 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([email protected]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
