Educause Security Discussion mailing list archives
Re: SPAM filtering
From: Dan Oachs <doachs () GAC EDU>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 13:59:07 -0500
Our mailservers enforce SPF records and we attempt to educate everyone we can when we are notified that a message was blocked because the SPF records say we should. It is really crazy how many organizations know enough to setup SPF records but not keep them updated/correct over time. --Dan On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:30 AM Thomas Carter <tcarter () austincollege edu> wrote:
I wasn’t sure which listserv to post this on, so I thought I’d give this one a shot. We recently switched to Barracuda for our spam filtering solution. We started with the default settings, but have seen a large number of valid messages getting flagged due to incorrect DKIM and/or SPF settings, including other .edu domains. I’ve been trying to notify the ones we find, but I wildly underestimated the number of domains with incorrect SPF records; they have records, they just aren’t correct (e.g. they use Office 365 for email, but don’t have Microsoft’s SPF info in their record). I think we’re going to have to back off on filtering based on them. Do you flag emails based on SPF FAIL/soft FAIL or incorrect DKIM? Do you make sure it’s correct at your institution? *Thomas Carter* Network & Operations Manager / IT *Austin College* 900 North Grand Avenue Sherman, TX 75090 Phone: 903-813-2564 www.austincollege.edu ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
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- SPAM filtering Thomas Carter (Oct 02)
- Re: SPAM filtering Bandy, John (Oct 02)
- Re: SPAM filtering John McCabe (Oct 02)
- Re: SPAM filtering Frahm, Eric J Jr. (Oct 02)
- Re: SPAM filtering Dan Oachs (Oct 02)