Thanks. I appreciate the info.
This is a great support group for this issue and it
makes me feel a lot better.
At first I was upset because I thought "What if
someone thinks I'm sending this junk?" and now I
realize that so many folks have this nonsense
perpetrated upon them.
I think what annoyed me with Godaddy isn't that I
expect them to be able to do anything about it, but
the fact that its almost like they only respond when
you email them endlessly. The network person at my
job says they are the worst for this kind of issue
because they are a bulk registrar, they are cheap, and
"you get what you pay for." Not sure how true this
is, but that added to my aggrevation.
How hard is it to set up a dedicated mail server?
--- Kaas Baichtal <kaas(_at_)baichtal(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hello,
Believe me I feel your pain. I was going through
this with several domains
myself a couple years ago.
I did come up with a way to at least feel better
about all the bounce
messages from spoofing though. I configured my
mailserver to catch all
bounces to non-existent users on the spoofed domain
using a regexp client
access check like this:
/(_dot_)*(_at_)putdomainnamehere\(_dot_)com/ 550 Recipient
unknown. Please consider
implementing SPF (http://www.openspf.org/) to avoid
bouncing mail to spoofed
senders. Thank you.
Now any time I become aware that a domain on my
server is being spoofed
heavily I temporarily insert one of these for it,
and the server attempting
delivery receives a nice message in its log
advertising SPF. What better way
to spread the word about SPF than by having spammers
spread it to the very
servers that obviously haven't implemented it?
There's always a chance an
admin over there will see the message and become
curious.
And more to the point, I can now look at my logs and
smile, or at least be
neutral, instead of flying into an unhealthy rage
every day. That's worth
quite a bit.
I realize you don't have this kind of control over
your mailserver, your
hosting company does. And even if they were to
implement something like this
there'd likely be a manpower issue or at the very
least an auto-detection
issue since they probably have thousands of
customers.
But I thought I'd post it anyway since someone else
might read it and
benefit.
--Kaas
----- Original Message -----
From: <pay_now(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
To: <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 8:50 AM
Subject: [spf-discuss] Godaddy Policy
Want to rant a bit, and get some opinion to make
sure
I'm not out of line.
For months now my domain has been spoofed with no
end
in site. Godaddy is the host and registrar.
When I first reported it to them they sent some
message to me describing what spoofing is, etc.
I would send them bouncebacks and get no response.
Of
course, I would complain about the lack of
response.
Finally, I get this response from them:
"We have received your reply.
We want to thank you for sending us the bounce
back
message headers. We have researched your issue
and
unfortunately we cannot prevent spoofing, nor can
any
other ISP. We want to apologize for the trouble
you
have experienced. SPF can help reduce the amount
of
spoofing but ultimately spoofing is a criminal
activity and the only way to prevent it is to
pursue
the offender legally.
If the office can assist you with further comments
or
concerns, let us know."
I'm wondering. Is this just a brushoff? Are the
companies that can do better than this? Godaddy
allows you to publish SPF records, which I'm still
trying to learn.
Thanks.
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