[Gllug] Configuring SPF to cope with secondary incoming mail servers

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at workshy.org
Mon Dec 4 19:56:27 UTC 2006


On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:31:32PM +0000, Henrik wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> 
> >why bother testing when most of the spam comes from domains that dont 
> >publish a spf record ?
> 
> Don't they? I just had a look at some of my spam emails and a majority of 
> them (appear/claim to) come from places like gmail, hotmail and aol and 
> they have spf records.

Do they claim that in the From: header?  Because that's irrelevant to
SPF.  What is the envelope sender?

-- 
Bruce

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