OT: E-mail spoofing and how to prevent it

[bob]

No matter. there are Billions of open relays out there

Brett Dikeman wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2006, at 1:09 PM, John Cody Forbes wrote:
>
>   
>> Ok recently I've been getting 70+ "Mail Delivery Failed" messages a  
>> day. Some spammer apears to be spoofing my e-mail address and doing  
>> his thing, and I'm getting all of the kickbacks from it. How can I  
>> stop this?
>>     
>
> Whoever is in charge of your internet domain should set up SPF DNS  
> records, which tell mail servers whether the connecting internet  
> address (IP address) is authorized to send email for the domain it  
> claims to be from.
>
> Google "SPF DNS".
>
> Brett
>
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