OT: SPF comments requested

[Steve Campbell]

    [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

 It seems that the MS mailing list is somewhat authoritative on so many
things dealing with MS, Sendmail, SA, and this list is probably the only one
that is up on all three, I would like to hear comments from the opinionated
that are listening.

I'm not sure if the SPF thing is something all of us should be dealing with
_now_, but if we all should be updating our DNS records, I'd like to hear
about some ideas from the list. I have gleaned as much as I can absorb from
all of the different sites required to explore implementing SPF, and I'm
still not sure how to use it other than setting up my DNS so others can use
it.

As I understand this, I have many options on how to use it for our
protection. Much like RBLs, I can set this up in Sendmail, or use the SPF
functions of SA, and probably a few more. And the same reasons for deciding
this are basicly the same as for using RBLs.

If anyone would like to comment to me off-list to keep the clutter out of
the archives, I would really like to hear opinions, experiences, and any
other words of wisdom about the best way to implement this SPF thing and it
current importance. Such things as "Is the SA modules really sufficient for
blocking", and the like would be along the lines I require.

Thank you for any responses.

Steve Campbell
campbell at cnpapers.com
Charleston Newspapers

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!