From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932247AbWFMVMX (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:12:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932253AbWFMVMX (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:12:23 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:62655 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932247AbWFMVMW (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:12:22 -0400 Subject: Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter) From: David Woodhouse To: Gerhard Mack Cc: jdow , Bernd Petrovitsch , davids@webmaster.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <193701c68d16$54cac690$0225a8c0@Wednesday> <1150100286.26402.13.camel@tara.firmix.at> <00de01c68df9$7d2b2330$0225a8c0@Wednesday> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:12:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1150233152.11159.121.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.1.dwmw2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- dwmw2