on 11/28/2007 10:46 AM Matt spake the following:
But as a matter of fact, I got corrected. The major problem with even scoring is that the only things spammers have to do (and they really do it!) is to register some new domain, enter valid SPF records for it and then their scoring might even improve.
DKIM and domainkeys are really no better in that respect. Spammers typically do not go through that much effort though.
Matt
I do see some benefit, at least for us. We get a lot of mail from a bank, but I cannot whitelist the bank by domain, because of phishing. So I either have to write some custom rules and experiment, whitelist each individuals address as they hit, or validate their domainkey and bump any scores back down enough to clear the filters. I think I will look at enabling the dkim plugin in spamassassin and see what happens.
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