[Wlug] SPF

[Keith Wright]

> From: Jamie Guinan <guinan at bluebutton.com>
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> Are any of you admins out there running SPF, or something similar?

This question is too hard for me.
What is "running SPF"?

I have these top secret records in my DNS zone file.

  keithdiane.us.  IN MX   10 dsl.keithdiane.us.
  keithdiane.us.  IN TXT  "v=spf1 mx include:speakeasy.net ~all"

(Don't tell anybody.)

And I send all my mail through speakeasy,
by which I mean that the SMTP server at keithdiane.us
forwards through there as a "smart host".
I don't use Speakeasy web mail,
but if I don't forward through Speakeasy, too much
mail gets rejected out of hand, just because it
comes from a dsl line.  (I think.  (It's been
a while since I tried it, and you never know
exactly why you have been rejected.))

On the other hand, when a host sends mail _to_ my
server, it does not check its DNS for SPF at all.

> How well does it work for you?

Compared to what?

I'm not sure how it works, because I've really
never done it any other way.

I do know that spam is way out of hand.  I get
over 100 a day of total stupid stink'n spam.
(This does not count mailing lists that I
am subscribed to that I do not actualy read;
just really stupid crap in Russian, repetitious
attempts to sell stuff I had better not mention
for fear of falling into the WPI filter, usw)

It's almost to the point where I might do something
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soon.


Real

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Soon

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Now


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