From: "jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net>
To: "Bernd Petrovitsch" <bernd@firmix.at>
Cc: <davids@webmaster.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:23:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00de01c68df9$7d2b2330$0225a8c0@Wednesday> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1150100286.26402.13.camel@tara.firmix.at
From: "Bernd Petrovitsch" <bernd@firmix.at>
> On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 22:17 -0700, jdow wrote:
> [...]
>> that matter. It simply says, "When I went and looked at the guy's claimed
>> mail source the spf record said he was who he said he was." Who vouches
>
> No. SPF simply defines legitimate outgoing MTAs for a given domain.
> Within a domain, it is up to the postmaster to allow/disallow address
> forgery and for the rest of a world (to tell where legitimate email of
> his domain comes from), the postmaster defines SPF records.
>
> Bernd
And just recently we received a spate of spam that came from a domain
that disappeared almost immediately. Domain names are cheap. They can
vouch for the spam run. Then what happens to them doesn't matter. But
the SPF record passes.
{^_-} There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
Too many people think SPF is a free lunch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-12 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-10 22:27 VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter) Matti Aarnio
2006-06-10 23:06 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-11 0:16 ` Rik van Riel
2006-06-11 0:44 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-11 13:02 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-11 13:55 ` Rik van Riel
2006-06-11 14:03 ` Avi Kivity
2006-06-12 8:47 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-12 10:17 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-12 10:35 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-12 11:07 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-11 2:24 ` marty fouts
2006-06-11 2:41 ` jdow
2006-06-11 2:58 ` David Schwartz
2006-06-11 5:17 ` jdow
2006-06-12 8:18 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-06-12 8:23 ` jdow [this message]
2006-06-12 8:31 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-06-12 9:47 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-12 10:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-12 10:33 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-12 17:37 ` Gerhard Mack
2006-06-12 18:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-06-12 18:46 ` jdow
2006-06-12 19:16 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-06-12 21:51 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-06-13 21:12 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-12 9:53 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-12 10:01 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-06-12 11:14 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-12 10:58 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-12 11:22 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-12 11:42 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-06-13 23:32 ` Scott Lockwood
2006-06-13 23:42 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-06-14 0:02 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-14 10:20 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-16 3:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-06-12 8:27 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-06-12 20:25 ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-12 21:10 ` Nick Warne
2006-06-12 22:06 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-06-12 22:12 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-06-12 23:03 ` jdow
2006-06-13 3:00 ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-13 5:54 ` jdow
2006-06-13 8:36 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-06-13 9:58 ` Marc Perkel
2006-06-13 13:28 ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-13 14:34 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-13 9:05 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-13 10:45 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-13 12:24 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-13 12:49 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-13 13:10 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-13 15:19 ` Marc Perkel
2006-06-13 15:57 ` Auke Kok
2006-06-13 19:54 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-13 20:31 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-06-13 20:48 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-15 17:05 ` Keith Owens
2006-06-15 23:14 ` Wakko Warner
2006-06-13 0:11 ` Phil Oester
2006-06-13 0:26 ` David Miller
2006-06-13 4:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-06-13 15:17 ` Joel Jaeggli
2006-06-12 21:43 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-06-13 3:05 ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-13 8:31 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-06-13 10:50 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-13 13:15 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-06-11 5:09 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-11 5:26 ` jdow
2006-06-11 6:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-06-11 16:02 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-06-11 17:54 ` Lee Revell
2006-06-11 18:54 ` David Miller
2006-06-12 9:09 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-12 11:32 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-06-12 14:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-12 20:00 ` David Miller
2006-06-12 22:29 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-06-12 22:48 ` David Miller
2006-06-12 22:57 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-06-13 3:54 ` VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter) - Alternative Marc Perkel
2006-06-13 4:51 ` David Miller
2006-06-13 13:41 ` VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter) Athanasius
2006-06-11 17:31 ` Marc Perkel
2006-06-11 18:50 ` Florian Weimer
[not found] ` <20060611072223.GA16150@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-12 8:32 ` Matti Aarnio
2006-06-12 8:40 ` Russell King
2006-06-12 9:57 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-12 15:55 ` Russell King
2006-06-12 20:06 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2006-06-12 11:22 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-12 15:41 ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-06-12 22:55 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-13 17:41 ` Matti Aarnio
2006-06-12 9:05 ` Matthias Andree
2006-06-12 17:28 ` Matthew Frost
2006-06-13 0:12 ` David Woodhouse
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