Hello,
Actually, I've got a tricky problem this morning. Some jerk sent out a spam mailing and forged the FROM and REPLY-TO addresses with the contact info of some of my domains hosted here at Dathorn. As the result, I had to download about ~600-700 bounces and auto-replies.
I know that the Internet is like this: you can fill in any junk in those FROM and REPLY-TO headers and it will work. Anyway, I have heard about SPF ( http://www.openspf.org/ ) and it's Yahoo-analog. This is a special stuff we should put in the domain's TXT DNS records and SPF-enabled mail server like mine will check the FROM and REPLY-TO fields against those records and if the IPs doesn't match it will refuse the message, because the contact info was obviousely forged.
Is there any chance we can benefit from this (still not so widespread) technology on Dathorn servers? I think that implementing a limited SPF support should only involve the editing of the cPanel's default zone files (adding needed TXT records) and a bind reload, but still will be very beneficient to all of us: this will protect our e-mails from being used by spammers (think of it "Dathorn is the only host around that protects you from mail forgery!").
P.S. I am afaird of probable Andrew's reply: "We don't plan to offer anything like that at this time"
Getting SPF implemented sounds so good 
Actually, I've got a tricky problem this morning. Some jerk sent out a spam mailing and forged the FROM and REPLY-TO addresses with the contact info of some of my domains hosted here at Dathorn. As the result, I had to download about ~600-700 bounces and auto-replies.
I know that the Internet is like this: you can fill in any junk in those FROM and REPLY-TO headers and it will work. Anyway, I have heard about SPF ( http://www.openspf.org/ ) and it's Yahoo-analog. This is a special stuff we should put in the domain's TXT DNS records and SPF-enabled mail server like mine will check the FROM and REPLY-TO fields against those records and if the IPs doesn't match it will refuse the message, because the contact info was obviousely forged.
Is there any chance we can benefit from this (still not so widespread) technology on Dathorn servers? I think that implementing a limited SPF support should only involve the editing of the cPanel's default zone files (adding needed TXT records) and a bind reload, but still will be very beneficient to all of us: this will protect our e-mails from being used by spammers (think of it "Dathorn is the only host around that protects you from mail forgery!").
P.S. I am afaird of probable Andrew's reply: "We don't plan to offer anything like that at this time"
Getting SPF implemented sounds so good
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