I find that very few domains use SPF records.  Neat idea, but 99% of the 
domains have not set them up and most mail servers don't care.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
My IT Department
www.myITaz.com
480-544-1067

Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry.


JT Moree wrote:
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>>On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Michael wrote:
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>>>I just got an email from a spam blocker. I think my system has been
>>>compromised. What should I do to fix this?
>>
>>Faking the 'From' address on an email is about as hard as faking the
>>return address on a paper letter.  Anybody can write an email and say
>>it's 'from' you.  Not much you can do about it.
> 
> 
> Has anyone used SPF (http://www.openspf.org/) or other email
> identification schemes.  Yahoo had one (domain keys
> http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys) and Microsoft had one.
> 
> - --
> JT Morée
> PC Xperience, Inc.
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