On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:27:21 +1100
Colin House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check out http://openspf.org - implementing SPF will help prevent
spoofed emails from being delivered and will start to cut down on the
backscatter
This often claimed, but I don't really see how it's going to help much.
RW wrote:
On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:27:21 +1100
Colin House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check out http://openspf.org - implementing SPF will help prevent
spoofed emails from being delivered and will start to cut down on the
backscatter
This often claimed, but I don't really see how it's
On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:33:46 +
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your reasoning is incorrect. The presence or absence of SPF records
affects how the systems that are the targets of the spam attack work,
and those are not in the control of the spammers. The ability of
a mail system
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:47:56PM -0600, Rob W. wrote:
I hope I'm in the right area and someone could possibly help me with this.
I am running FreeBSD 5.4. I installed qmail from www.qmailrocks.org
Everything is working correctly and I do have spamassassin and clamav
installed and
I hope I'm in the right area and someone could possibly help me with this.
I am running FreeBSD 5.4. I installed qmail from www.qmailrocks.org
Everything is working correctly and I do have spamassassin and clamav installed
and working.
Lately I have been getting emails back saying that someone
Rob W. wrote:
I hope I'm in the right area and someone could possibly help me with this.
You should post this question on the qmail mailing list. You should
also include the relevant logs with your question.
Even if you're not an open relay, spammers can spoof your domain name to
send
sent from my domain...
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Rob W. wrote:
Is it possible for people to send email out from my domain name and have
fake users acting as comming from my network?
Yes, if you have defeated the security features of your mail server either
accidentally or on purpose
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Rob W. wrote:
Ok, and I suppose by chance there is no way to prevent this from happening
or a way to stop it huh?
No, not from your perspective.
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Sahil Tandon wrote:
Rob W. wrote:
I hope I'm in the right area and someone could possibly help me with
this.
You should post this question on the qmail mailing list. You should
also include the relevant logs with your question.
Even if you're not an open relay, spammers can spoof your
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Rob W. wrote:
Is it possible for people to send email out from my domain name and have
fake users acting as comming from my network?
Yes, if you have defeated the security features of your mail server either
accidentally or on purpose, but that is not what is happening in
Lars Eighner wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Rob W. wrote:
Ok, and I suppose by chance there is no way to prevent this from
happening or a way to stop it huh?
No, not from your perspective.
You cannot stop others from spoofing your address, but you can prevent
some backscatter from clogging
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