Jason R. Mastaler wrote:

Jim Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Apparently AOL just added SPF records to their domain today!

Wow, that's impressive. I hope Yahoo and Hotmail follow suit. That would be enough to sway the rest of the smaller providers I think.

I'm about to fire of an email to my own ISP saying "AOL did this, so why don't you?".


I've actually blocked 3 spam because of this already, and I am well pleased.

This means that if your SMTP server is SPF enabled, you will
suddenly get a LOT less spam from addresses ending in "aol.com"

I'll look into enabling this in my Postfix.

http://spf.pobox.com/downloads.html has something for Postfix, also qmail, perl, python, and "soon" there will be a C library for easy integration into everything else.


unless they are actually sent via a real AOL SMTP server.

Unlikely as AOL imposes all kinds of limitations to reduce spamming attempts (limit on number of recips per message, limit total number of messages/day, etc), and they aggressively close delinquent accounts.

That is excellent news!


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Jim Ramsay

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