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Re: SPF is not usable as legal measure against spammers.

2004-07-14 09:08:04
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Jonathan Gardner wrote:

| How is it possible to lie? Only the domain owners are allowed to
publish DNS
| records for their domain. The domain owners assert via SPF that mail
going
| through specific servers is their mail. I must be missing the part where
| someone else can publish SPF records for you, and claim mail servers you
| don't trust are allowed to send email for you. I don't see how that is
| possible.

You might think a bit about why relay based on MX is a bad config option.

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Chuck Mead
csm(_at_)moongroup(_dot_)com
Chief Tech @ http://moongroup.com - http://anirononline.com
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