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Re: Zafi.b

2004-06-15 09:02:57
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Tirsdag den 15. juni 2004 17:04 skrev administrator(_at_)yellowhead(_dot_)com:
How is SPF faring against the Zafi.b virus.
IP range, but if the SPF records are set up properly (as is ours),
the IP used should not be authorized.

If the receiver blocks on SPF fail, and the published SPF records 
marks the sender IP address as a fail, then it will not be delivered.

Please note, that specific viruses, worms, spam e-mails etc. are 
outside the scope of SPF discussions. SPF only publishes policies for 
a domain, and it's then up to the receiver to decide, whether to use 
these policies and how to use them, depending on the domain name.

Currently, the most widespread use of SPF is to whitelist domains, 
that are known to ensure, that viruses, worms and spam don't come 
from their mailservers.

As long as people want to be able to receive e-mails from people that 
don't publish SPF records, and as long as people want to be able to 
receive e-mails from mailsystems that can potentially be infected by 
viruses and worms, nothing can stop it entirely.

Lars.

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Surftown
European shared hosting provider
http://www.surftown.com/
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