Re: [Exim] Fixing SPF Forward Problem by Reply-to: Hack?

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A: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Fixing SPF Forward Problem by Reply-to: Hack?
[ On Monday, March 22, 2004 at 07:39:12 (+0530), Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Fixing SPF Forward Problem by Reply-to: Hack?
>
> It is not perfect, but it does have its applications - such as in large
> domains like aol / mail.com / hotmail, where the client (webmail or
> desktop) is under the provider's control, and the major problem is spam
> spoofing that domain, sent from sources around the world.


No, not really. Any large domain that thinks SPF will benefit them in
any way whatsoever has no idea of the scale of the problem.

There are millions upon millions of active mail servers on the net
_today_ that will not ever implement SPF and they can all send bounces
to forged sender addresses.

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