Re: [Asrg] What are the IPs that sends mail for a domain?

"Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortel.com> Thu, 02 July 2009 17:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] What are the IPs that sends mail for a domain?
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Ian Eiloart wrote:
> 
> --On 2 July 2009 12:27:57 -0400 Chris Lewis <clewis@nortel.com> wrote:
> 
>> Bill Cole wrote:
>>> Ian Eiloart wrote, On 7/2/09 6:23 AM:
>>>> Exercise for the reader: why aren't spammers using the @ibm.com domain?
>>> You provided the answer before the question.
>> Somewhat.  Because spammers _are_ using @ibm.com too.  I got samples ;-)
> 
> Ok, but it's trivial to reject them after checking SPF.

Don't need to.  They're all being rejected by either "no such user" or 
the spam filter rejects.

SPF isn't worth the cycles nor bandwidth (in this environment at least) 
to catch the rare SPF -all.