Well to use other SMTP relay than the one from the used ISP is not allways possible, and should be prevented anyway. nearly 100% of the spam is caused by direct senders, very seldom they use the ISP's Relay. so lets close that big spamfriendly hole.
My opinion of corse ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Bernard Dugas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: swinog@swinog.ch Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:47:44 +0100 >Hi, > >Jean-Pierre Schwickerath wrote: >> If you consider SPF to be the solution against all kinds of SPAMs then >> you will indeed be disapointed. SPF is meant to prevent the abuse of >> your domain as mail envelope from address. >> There are still worms out there that use harvested e-mail addresses as >> sender. And when the people receiving this kind of spam come back to >> you, you can at least tell them: hey, we published spf records to show >> you which IPs are allowed to send mail with this envelope address. if >> you don't check it and accept the obvious forgery, then it's your >> problem. > >And in complement to that, if we give to our customers some outgoing >smtp servers with authentification they can use from any hotel/wifi in >the world, there is no more reason that any email with your domain-names >are sent from other smtp servers than ours, published with SPF in DNS. > >And the customer is happy because he doesn't have to change smtp server >each time he travels :-) > >Best regards, >-- > > __________ Bernard DUGAS ________________________________________ >| | >| Technoparc Pays de Gex mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | >| 30 Rue Auguste Piccard Tel.: +33 615 333 770 | >| FR 01630 St Genis Pouilly Fax : +33 450 205 106 | >|_________________________________________________________________| > >_______________________________________________ >swinog mailing list >swinog@lists.swinog.ch >http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mgz.ch _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
