Why the use of SPF pointer is becoming more important

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Tue Jan 6 10:13:33 CET 2009


On Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2008, Alain Spineux wrote:
> Because SPF is used more and more, SPAMMER will become forced to choose
> unprotected SPF domain as sender of their spam!

Good question, I always thought that most of the spam is coming from cracked 
machines and accounts, SPF will not help with these I assume.

> Then the need of a kolab SPF aware will become more and more urgent !

I am not into the topic, but I've seen a lot of contoversy about SPF.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework#Controversy,
the German page seem to have more criticism
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework#Kritik

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