Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Massive SPAM Increase {-2.6} {-2.6}

--On Monday, October 16, 2006 13:29:59 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

What Paul is *trying* to do is deal with the fact that any Windows-like
box with spamware is *also* configured to send mail out.

What he's *looking* for is called "SPF", not "outbound MX".

For various reasons, which you can easily google, I don't think spf (at least in its present form) is a useful solution.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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