Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers

2004-09-12 Thread Darin Cox
or the domain to be specifically configured to refer to the ISPs SPF records. Darin.     - Original Message - From: Scott Fisher To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers Here are some of my stats t

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers

2004-09-12 Thread Scott Fisher
e.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers I believe that SPF is almost all hype and hardly any value to speak of.It was originally intended to authenticate hosts, but spammers quickly caught on and started giving themselves SPF records ( http://netscape.com.com/2100-1009_22-53

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers

2004-09-11 Thread Darin Cox
used, this is an indispensable test.   While I wish SPF Pass was worthwhile as well, I'll take what good I can get out of it. Darin.     - Original Message - From: Matt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records an

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers

2004-09-11 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I believe that SPF is almost all hype and hardly any value to speak of. It's not hype - if you use it correctly it can provide some positive results. After all other spam filtering was done (Postfix, SpamAssassin, Razor, Pyzor, DCC

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers

2004-09-11 Thread Paul Navarre
I believe that SPF is almost all hype and hardly any value to speak of. I think this is a bit harsh. While SPF is certainly not the answer to all of my prayers, it has some value. It was originally intended to authenticate hosts, but spammers quickly caught on and started giving t

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers

2004-09-11 Thread Matt
I believe that SPF is almost all hype and hardly any value to speak of. It was originally intended to authenticate hosts, but spammers quickly caught on and started giving themselves SPF records ( http://netscape.com.com/2100-1009_22-5357269.html?part=netscape&subj=technews&tag=mynetscape ). 

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers

2004-09-11 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "David Dodell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For your hotel situation, you might try setting your mail server to accept > > SMTP AUTH traffic on port 587. That way if 25 is blocked but 587 is open > > you can continue to use your mail server. > > I thought Imail only

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers

2004-09-11 Thread David Dodell
Saturday, September 11, 2004, 7:37:21 AM, Darin Cox wrote: > For your hotel situation, you might try setting your mail server to accept > SMTP AUTH traffic on port 587. That way if 25 is blocked but 587 is open > you can continue to use your mail server. I thought Imail only has the capability o

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers

2004-09-11 Thread Darin Cox
Yes. One of the flaws of SPF. However, you can also use a weaker SPF record that says basically that you don't know what mail server it is coming from. Not much point in that except to say that you're using SPF, though I suppose it might be possible that a particular mail admin might penalize si