Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter)

David Woodhouse
2006-06-13T21:12:23Z

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:37 -0400, Gerhard Mack wrote:
>
> Innerfire.net used to be foraged as a spam sender every other month and
> gmack@innerfire.net so often that I still have procmail filters to
> redirect bounces to their own folder. The thousands of messages I was
> getting was infuriating but it has been a very rare event since I setup
> SPF on my domain.
>
> SPF may not filter spam much but if you set it to autofail you can reduce
> the risk for innocent mail admins.

There are much better ways to achieve that same effect. I don't get
_any_ faked bounces to dwmw2@infradead.org any more, and I didn't have
to disavow _valid_ forwarded mail in order to achieve that.

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dwmw2