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Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

  • From: Niels Bakker
  • Date: Mon Sep 06 16:57:10 2004 
* [email protected] (Dan Mahoney, System Admin) [Mon 06 Sep 2004, 22:19 CEST]:
> Hrmmm, perhaps this hasn't been thought of yet, but this is a serious
> idea for things like spamassassin, or the like.  For this list of
> domains, a decent twofold effort could happen:
[snip]

No, SPF is not feasible for integration into SpamAssassin.  Some links:

   http://www.apache.org/foundation/docs/sender-id-position.html
   http://www.debian.org/News/2004/20040904
   http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg03884.html


> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:
>>Company Name		Has SPF TXT record
[..]
>>Earthlink		YES

This tells a slightly different story regarding EarthLink's commitment
to adapting Sender ID, though:

   http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg04258.html


	-- Niels.