Re: [exim] Anti Phishing ACL

--On 30 October 2008 16:58:38 +0100 Kjetil Torgrim Homme
<kjetilho@???> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 12:32 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>> That's useful. It's shocking that most of these banks haven't
>> implemented SPF.
>
> well, perhaps they don't want their customers to lose their e-mail
> randomly...

Maybe, but when their customers don't know who their email is coming from,
maybe it's better they don't get any at all. Better than losing all their
money.

>
> DKIM is another story, of course.
>
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:21:48 +0000, neil wrote:
>> Yes I know that SPF etc breaks stuff <cue furious debate about
>> forwarding>, but I would have though that in the few cases where people
>> set up deliberate forwarding they could whitelist, versus the millions
>> of phishing mails sent each day.
>
> no, people can't whitelist on their own. good luck asking your e-mail
> provider to add exceptions to their SPF handling. also good luck
> explaining why this is needed to your grandma.



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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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