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Re: [spf-discuss] Re: Email messages that are extremely un helpful...

2008-07-31 13:18:15
On 31/07/2008 20:05, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:

It really is spamming me.

Maybe report the UBE as spam, especially if it
violates RFC 3834.

One area, that I think SPF missed was CNAME.

Why do you think that ?  AFAIK SPF doesn't say
"don't follow CNAME", that is a rule in 2821bis
about MX.

| On the 1st of January 2009, our mail server
| will be rejecting any mail from domains that
| do not have a SPF record.

IMO they'd better publish their future receiver
policy on a web page, and use its URL in their
future 5xx reject status codes.

Just "having" an SPF record could be a useless
"v=spf1 ?all" always NEUTRAL policy, this is by
definition the same as NONE (no policy).
| Until your SPF record are updated, you will
| be receiving this message each day, until
| the 1st of January 2009, for each daily
| message you send to our clients.

Sigh, the one thing that is always worse than
spam are wannabe-anti-spammers.  You say you
have a policy, so is that s/wannabe/clueless/ ?

 Frank

I have received the same e-mail in the last couple of hours. It has no headers but it does have all the links to the spf web site + listbox .com
The complete message + source is pasted below.

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From - Thu Jul 31 17:09:03 2008
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:08:31 -0400
From: spfrequired(_at_)cyberglobe(_dot_)net
To: gerberb(_at_)zenez(_dot_)com
Subject: URGENT: Your DNS is missing a SPF record.

Dear Domain Owner,

Please note that your domain name is currently missing a SPF record to notify other mail servers that you only allow mail delivery from your specified mail servers.

On the 1st of January 2009, our mail server will be rejecting any mail from domains that do not have a SPF record. Currently we see that your domain name does not have a SPF record and therefore you are receiving this message. If you do not manage your domain name, please contact your Network Administrator, Internet Service Provider or Web Hosting Provider and request them to add the SPF records within the DNS records for all your domain names.

To fix this, please visit http://www.openspf.org and use the wizard that is available there to assist you in creating your DNS TXT SPF record. Once created, add this entry into your DNS management for your domain.

Until your SPF record are updated, you will be receiving this message each day, until the 1st of January 2009, for each daily message you send to our clients. When we reach January 2009, and you still have not fixed your DNS TXT SPF records, your messages will no longer be received by our clients.

Thank you for your understanding,
Cyberglobe Technical Support.
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