Re: FN-FORUM: email spoofing best practice

date posted 19th January 2007 11:19

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:01:09PM -0000, Leigh Jepson wrote:
>
> That will only deal with any bounce backs.
>
> To be honest, theres really nothing you can do about it till they eventually
> leave you alone.
>
> I'm currently on the end of this too! Which is a shame considering I'm a
> web host.

SPF will provide some protection against someone doing this, not all MTAs take
note of the SPF record so it isn't perfect. See:

http://www.openspf.org/

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of
> > [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Sent: 19 January 2007 11:54
> > To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: FN-FORUM: email spoofing best practice
> >
> >
> > Someone's spoofing my domain to send spam - my question is, what's the
> > best
> > policy to try and avoid being blacklisted or whatever? The two things I'm
> > considering are setting unknown recipients to 'black hole' or ':fail: no
> > such address here' in cPanel.
> >
> > Phil

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