Re: Request: Please sign this list's messages via DKIM or SPF

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On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, lst_hoe02--- via Info-cyrus wrote:


Zitat von Binarus via Info-cyrus <info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:


Combine SPF / DKIM with domain blacklisting, and then you *have* an efficient spam fighting tool.


As stated the spam actually reaching our inboxes after around 90% cutoff is valid DKIM/SPF signed as it is mostly from the big free providers like Outlook.com, Google and Yahoo. Some other big share is from professional spam farms with always alternating IP and Domains ranges from all over the world with also valid DKIM/SPF. Next big share is from educational servers also mostly valid DKIM/SPF. The tiny rest with around 10% is in fact not DKIM/SPF signed. From the valid e-mail around 20% looks like having a valid SPF/DKIM, mostly professional newsletters not personal mail from customers.

So No, SPF/DKIM is no useful spam fighting tool at least not in our corner of the world.

Another recent standard, DMARC (https://dmarc.org/) allows the domain owner to specify what the recipient should do with messages that fail DKIM or SPF checks.

We ran into this recently and discovered that Yahoo's DMARC records tell the recipient to REJECT messages that fail DKIM or SPF. Google is honoring that DMARC record by putting the message into the Spam folder.

This seems like a pretty effective method to prevent someone from spoofing email from your domain. Of course, it does not prevent an actual Yahoo account from sending spam, so you still need traditional spam detection tools as well. However, it is nice that a third-party sender cannot harm your domain's reputation through spoofing.

Note: I don't care whether this email list uses SPF or DKIM.

	Andy
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