SPF Record - SPAM Still Getting Through???

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  • blyxx86
    Contributor
    • Nov 2006
    • 258

    SPF Record - SPAM Still Getting Through???

    I am having an issue with spam e-mail getting through my SPF records. I'm not sure why or how. The senders are spoofing the "From" section of the e-mail to be @mydomain.com.

    It does seem to help and it stops SOME of them, but they still manage to get through. I turned on Intelligent Message Filtering and am monitoring the mail it is filtering. Some of the spoofed e-mail gets blocked, but not all of it.

    I thought the idea of a DNS / SPF record was to have it verify the sender BEFORE it forwards it through to my mail server.

    Below is the TXT/SPF record stored for all of my sub-domains.
    Code:
    v=spf1 ip4:1.2.3.4 mx:mail.mydomain.com ip4:10.20.30.40/29 -all
    I also have an MX record in my internal DNS server (which is also the exchange server) that has a forward lookup to mail.mydomain.c om and a TXT record that is the same as the SPF record at the DNS above.

    Can someone help me with this? I've read up on it and I think I'm missing some pieces, but I don't know where.

    According to many of the SPF tools, the supplied version should work. And the testing tools say that mail not from the IP/MX listed in the SPF will return a FAIL result, but that's not what I'm seeing.

    Thanks!!
  • blyxx86
    Contributor
    • Nov 2006
    • 258

    #2
    I may have found a solution to this!!

    I will wait a few days to see if any more mail gets through.

    In Windows Server 2003...

    Server Management Console >>
    Advanced Management >>
    Domain (Exchange) >>
    Global Settings >>
    Right Click Message Delivery >>
    Sender ID Filtering

    Default was set to "Accept" when fails.
    I set to Reject. Hopefully this will not cause any normal e-mails to be rejected.

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