Re: Question about SPF email filtering

[Jason Todd <jtodd () WESTERNU EDU>]

We're using it but we only tag the message as possible spam if SPF fails. SPF doesn't work well with e-mail forwarding.

Jason Todd
Network Security Officer
Western University of Health Sciences

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Dye, Jan
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:17 AM
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Subject: [SECURITY] Question about SPF email filtering

I'm just curious to see how many of you have enabled SPF filtering on your email systems?

We recently enabled this, and the result is that we have many support tickets from users who no longer receive mail 
from rejected senders. These senders are legitimate, however, they have "bad" SPF records.

We're wondering how other institutions are handling this, and if SPF checking is really worth it.

If I've posted this on the wrong list, please let me know.

Thanks,


Jan S. Dye
Messaging Services
Division of Information Technology
University of Missouri
920 South College
Columbia, MO  65211
Office: (573) 882-1042