Re: [exim] Exim4 + greylistd + spf

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Author: aurelien
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Subject: Re: [exim] Exim4 + greylistd + spf



Ian Eiloart wrote:
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> --On 17 August 2006 10:40:36 +0200 Andreas Metzler
> <eximusers@???> wrote:
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>> Aurélien Fernandes <aurelien.fernandes@???> wrote:
>>> A few months ago I installed Ex Exim 4.5-8 + Clamav + Greylist on
>>> my Debian Sarge. When i started to get spams coming through the greylist
>>> I decided to install SPF as first filter.
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>> SPF is no Anti-Spam measure. It is just a way to enforce that e-mails
>> using certain senders can only be sent from certain hosts.
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> That's a useful way of reducing spam from certain trusted domains. For
> example, I'd be more inclined to trust email from a .ac.uk domain if it
> matched an SPF record. It's not that spam never originates from such
> sources, but I'd expect there to be a responsible postmaster who I could
> contact.
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> Ian Eiloart
> IT Services, University of Sussex
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I agree with you and I think that way I would increase the delivery og
e-mails coming from big firms like Gmail, yahoo, MSN...

And I can't configure exim to do just that! My spf test lets all the e-mails
through, which is not what I want it to do.


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