OT: Spam Problems

[Reindl Harald]

Am 09.07.2012 15:47, schrieb Alan Cox:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 11:03:38 +0000
> "Errol Mangwiro " <emangwiro at live.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently I started receiving bounces from mail purporting to having been sent from addresses in my domain. But the addresses don't exist. So I thought that someone was faking the sender header and sending spam. I added SPF and domain-key records to try to combat this. However, either hotmail and yahoo don't check these or they ignore them because I'm still getting spammed. 
> 
> I don't think anyone bothers with SPF any more - the only people with
> valid records are usually spammers.

says who?

SPF is used in any spam-firewall applicance these days
to give additional good or bad points to a message


[root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ dig TXT thelounge.net @8.8.8.8
;; ANSWER SECTION:
thelounge.net.          86400   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 ip4:91.118.73.0/24 ip4:89.207.144.27 -all"

[root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ dig SPF thelounge.net @8.8.8.8
;; ANSWER SECTION:
thelounge.net.          86400   IN      SPF     "v=spf1 ip4:91.118.73.0/24 ip4:89.207.144.27 -all"

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even any of our customers domains without e-mail has the correct SPF

[root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ dig TXT afi.at @8.8.8.8
;; ANSWER SECTION:
afi.at.                 21600   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 -all"



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