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Re: Ok: this is a targetted attack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Feb 11 16:50:46 2013

Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:50:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <51196506.8010909@toaster.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Lazar" <knife@toaster.net>

> Jay, you need to have SPF records for your domain. This will prevent
> the spoofing you are seeing.

I should in fact.  

But am I incorrect in thinking that since the envelope address *was not
actually forged*, they wouldn't help here unless *Mailman* also processed
them?

(And alas, that article is itself complicated enough to tell me that I
need to do actual research on the issue, so it won't happen tonight. :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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