[clamav-users] clamav list spf problem

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 21 June 2018 23:08:34 Andrew McGlashan wrote:

> On 22/06/18 07:21, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 June 2018 17:12:51 Al Varnell wrote:
> >> Gene,
> >>
> >> If you aren't responsible for an e-mail domain, then none of this
> >> applies to you.
> >>
> >> Based on the e-mail address you are using, this isn't anything you
> >> should care about.
> >>
> >> -Al-
> >
> > That is what I was trying to drill down to Al. The email address to
> > get to me, is totally independent of the web address in the sig. 
> > That I buy from namecheap, in 5 year blocks.
> >
> > But that has not prevented me from getting spammed by my own address
> > occasionally.
>
> You have an SPF entry, were you not responsible for it's setup?
>
> gheskett at shentel.net
>
> # dig -t txt shentel.net +short
> "v=spf1 ip4:204.111.2.0/25 ip4:204.111.1.0/24 ip4:204.111.6.73
> ip4:204.111.6.123 ip4:204.111.6.124 ~all"
>
> Is that provided on your behalf by barracuda?
>
> # host shentel.net
> shentel.net has address 204.111.6.122
> shentel.net mail is handled by 10 barracuda.cloud.shentel.net.
>
> If they tightened up your SPF and mail servers respect the rules; then
> you can expect less spam -- you cannot expect zero spam as lots of
> senders will not use "standard" mail servers and many receiving mail
> server will not give SPF the weight it deserves by rejecting false
> senders.

I get what I would call minimum spam, just enough to train SA with.
A bad day is 10. When I was using my old account at the tv station, 
several years ago, the spam count was often 200+ a day. Whatever 
barracuda is trained to do, its doing it very well.

So if you hear me complaining about spam, its plainly been a bad day all 
around, and  likely some other straw has broke this old camels back. :)

Thanks Andrew.


> Cheers
> A.
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