Friday, April 27, 2007
I get Spam Email from my own domain name
We have increased the security level of the SPF record. However the issue is that SPF is still in the alpha testing stage and the majority of e-mail servers do not check for SPF records at all. Adding SPF to mail will most likely be fully available as an accepted standard some time in the next 5 to 10 years. The problem is that e-mail is an outdated standard in which e-mail can easily be forged and send from any computer anywhere in the world claiming to be someone else. Any changes to these standards over the next few years will eventually require every mail server and every end user in the world to change to new software. Currently what happens now is that the receiving e-mail server then parses the information and if a bounce message is generated, it returns to the domain that the mail claims to be from. About the only alternative means to deal with this is to file a complaint to the FTC by sending the entire e-mail including the header information to spam@uce.gov
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How to Get Full Headers From Microsoft Programs
http://www.haltabuse.org/help/headers/microsoft.shtml
You’ve Got Spam: How to “Can” Unwanted Email
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/inbox.shtm
