[Gllug] spam

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:21:58AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:

> >> and how do they fake the sender id as ME sending it back to the
> >> original address  ?

I meant to mention that you can stop it appearing to be FROM you by implementing
SPF: setting a DNS record & checking it. However I know that some on this list do
not like SPF. I use it and my machine rejects several hundred email a day because of it.
See:

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework

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