That much trouble? [LWN.net]

That much trouble?

Posted Sep 6, 2004 18:10 UTC (Mon) by marble (subscriber, #2719)
In reply to: That much trouble? by khim
Parent article: Debian rejects Sender ID

You wouldn't say that when you're treated to thousands of bounces, hatemails
etc, cos some spammer has decided to send email from your address. This
happens, SPF offers a solution. SpamAssassin already does a fairly decent
job of filing spam away in the bit bucket so with widespread adoption of
SPF, I'd be happy. (Yes, it has happened to me.)

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That much trouble?

Posted Sep 6, 2004 19:42 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

But you can protect against bounces with outbound-envelope-cookie schemes like SRS. Further, with SRS, you protect *yourself*, you dont rely on other people to check SPF first before sending a bounce to you.

Unlike SPF, outbound-cookies dont break, the very common, use of SMTP forwards.

SPF! It "authenticates" (cough) mail from my domain, Yay for SPF!

/me uninstalls gnupg