On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:42 +0200, mouss wrote: > Benny Pedersen wrote: > > On Wed, April 2, 2008 02:06, William Terry wrote: > > > >> I mostly lurk here, gleaning bits of wisdom from those far more > >> knowledgeable than me, however... > >> > > > > i have no clue either :-) > > > > > >> I am getting a dramatic increase in bounce messages with my domain > >> forged sent to me. At least some of the messages still retain the > >> headers so I can tell that we did not originate the message. I also > >> know that there is probably little I can do to keep them coming. > >> > > > > http://openspf.org/ one could add spf to domain, and hope bouncers get a > > clue > > when bouncing and not rejecting spam :/ > > > > > > if they had a clue, they wouldn't accept-then-bounce. > >> I'm just wondering if anyone else is seeing a dramatic rise in these > >> messages? Is there anything I can do to mitigate this? > >> > > > > i see other types of backscatter that could be solved by using spf > > > > only if spammers check spf before forging addresses, which I doubt... > I think they do. Because a SPF_FAIL would land their mail in spam folders
I have had been flooded with backscatter before on domains that didnt have SPF records. The moment I put SPF records I saw backscatter disappear. It may have neen coincidental that spammers stopped forging that domain and moved on BTW , How does vbounce work , Is there a good link somewhere ? >
