Re: SPF's helo identity as a reporting target

Chris Lewis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12-05-13 02:49 PM, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> On Sun 13/May/2012 20:44:58 +0200 Chris Lewis wrote:
> 
>> On 12-05-13 05:58 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
>>
>>> No, wait.  Didn't I say it has to get an SPF "pass" to get usable?
>>> I must have considered it implied... my bad.
>>
>> It doesn't help.
>>
>> spammerdomain.com IN MX 0  wmail.tana.it.
>> spammerdomain.com IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:0/0 -all"

Whoops, I meant:

_smtp.spammerdomain.com IN MX 0 wmail.tana.it

> 
> That's not quite how helo authentication works.  When they say "helo
> wmail.tana.it" the server looks up wmail.tana.it.

No.  The spammer says "helo spammerdomain.com".  Postmaster sends
complaint to abuse@_smtp.spammerdomain.com.

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