Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-03 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Chris Owen wrote: > On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:52 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > >> It only stops forgery if the SPF record has a -all in it (as hubris.net >> does). >> However, a lot of domains (mine included) have a ~all instead. > > I guess I've never really see

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-03 Thread Andre Engel
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Chris Owen [mailto:ow...@hubris.net] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2009 07:25 > An: NANOG list > Betreff: Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact? > > On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:52 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > > It on

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-03 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: (And before anybody asks, yes ~all is what we want, and no you can't ask us to try -all instead, unless we're allowed to send you all the helpdesk calls about misconfigured migratory laptops".. ;) While I'll remain neutral about the specifics o

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Owen
On Dec 3, 2009, at 12:42 AM, John Levine wrote: > I also agree that any domain with live users (as opposed to mail > cannons sending ads or transaction confirmations) is likely to > experience pain with -all from all the overenthusiastic little MTAs > whose managers imagine that "stopping forgery"

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
John Levine wrote: I guess I've never really seen the point of publishing a SPF record if it ends in ~all. What are people supposed to do with that info? Get your mail delivered to Hotmail, the last significant outpost of SPF/Sender-ID. Other than that, I agree it's useless. I also agree tha

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread John Levine
>I guess I've never really seen the point of publishing a SPF record if >it ends in ~all. What are people supposed to do with that info? Get your mail delivered to Hotmail, the last significant outpost of SPF/Sender-ID. Other than that, I agree it's useless. I also agree that any domain with li

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Chris Owen wrote: > On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > >> Because SenderID and SPF have no anti-spam value, and almost no >> anti-forgery value.  Not that this stops a *lot* of people who've drunk >> the kool-aid from trying to use them anyway, > >

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Owen
On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:52 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > It only stops forgery if the SPF record has a -all in it (as hubris.net does). > However, a lot of domains (mine included) have a ~all instead. I guess I've never really seen the point of publishing a SPF record if it ends in ~all. Wh

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:38:54 CST, Chris Owen said: > On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > > Because SenderID and SPF have no anti-spam value, and almost no > > anti-forgery value. Not that this stops a *lot* of people who've drunk > > the kool-aid from trying to use them anyway,

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Owen
On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > Because SenderID and SPF have no anti-spam value, and almost no > anti-forgery value. Not that this stops a *lot* of people who've drunk > the kool-aid from trying to use them anyway, OK, I'll bite--How exactly do you go about forging email fro

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:50:54AM -0500, Brad Laue wrote: > Exclusionary blocklists are a great idea if they're constantly > maintained. I'm unclear as to why mail administrators don't work more > proactively with things like SenderID and SPF, as these seem to be far > more maintainable in t

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-11-24 Thread Justin Shore
Brad Laue wrote: Ah, very true. Still really hoping to get in touch with someone from AT&T. :-) Good luck. You might be a better response from posting a video complaint on Youtube. "AT&T Breaks Guitars" perhaps. :-) Justin

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-11-24 Thread Brad Laue
On 2009-11-24, at 6:15 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:38:33 EST, Brad Laue said: > >> True, but wouldn't a blacklist of SPF records for known spam issuing >> domains be a more maintainable list than an IP block whitelist? >> >> (I'm no doubt missing something very ob

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-11-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:38:33 EST, Brad Laue said: > True, but wouldn't a blacklist of SPF records for known spam issuing > domains be a more maintainable list than an IP block whitelist? > > (I'm no doubt missing something very obvious with this question) 140M+ .com where a malicious DNS server

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Peddemors
On November 24, 2009, Brad Laue wrote: > True, but wouldn't a blacklist of SPF records for known spam issuing > domains be a more maintainable list than an IP block whitelist? > > (I'm no doubt missing something very obvious with this question) > > Brad > Yes, I think you are :) First of all,

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-11-24 Thread Brad Laue
On 2009-11-24, at 1:27 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:50:54 EST, Brad Laue said: >>> maintained. I'm unclear as to why mail administrators don't work more >>> proactively with things like SenderID and SPF, as these seem to be far >>> mor

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-11-24 Thread Joel Jaeggli
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:50:54 EST, Brad Laue said: >> maintained. I'm unclear as to why mail administrators don't work more >> proactively with things like SenderID and SPF, as these seem to be far >> more maintainable in the long-run than an ever-growing list of

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-11-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:50:54 EST, Brad Laue said: > maintained. I'm unclear as to why mail administrators don't work more > proactively with things like SenderID and SPF, as these seem to be far > more maintainable in the long-run than an ever-growing list of IP > address ranges. There's a diff

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-11-24 Thread Brad Laue
Patrick Tracanelli wrote: Brad Laue escreveu: Hi all, Would I be able to get an AT&T mail administrator to contact me off-list? We've recently moved our mailservers to a new IP address range, and the standard CGI forms haven't produced any progress for us in over a week now. Unfortunately

Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-11-24 Thread Patrick Tracanelli
Brad Laue escreveu: > Hi all, > > Would I be able to get an AT&T mail administrator to contact me off-list? > We've recently moved our mailservers to a new IP address range, and the > standard CGI forms haven't produced any progress for us in over a week now. > Unfortunately this affects dozens

AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

2009-11-24 Thread Brad Laue
Hi all, Would I be able to get an AT&T mail administrator to contact me off-list? We've recently moved our mailservers to a new IP address range, and the standard CGI forms haven't produced any progress for us in over a week now. Unfortunately this affects dozens of hosted clients... The CGI f