[ale] Spammer using my address :(

[Randy Ramsdell]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Guys,
>>
>>  A spammer is apparently using one of our company addresses as a reply
>>  to address.  ie. We're getting th bounce messages.
>>
>>  Does anyone know of anything that should be done mitigate the problem,
>>  or do we just have to hope the spammer changes reply addresses in a
>>  day or two.
>>     
>
> Although it won't stop the spammer from using your domain.... if you
> had a SPF record on your company domain, then legit servers would more
> than likely not accept the spammer's email, and thus there would be
> fewer bounces back to you.
>
> I see that you use Google Apps for your company email, assuming that
> you don't operate any other internal company mail systems, you can
> accomplish this by adding a DNS TXT record with the following data:
>
>      v=spf1 include:aspmx.googlemail.com -all
>
> Also see: http://www.openspf.org/
>
> hth,
>
> -Jim P.
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>   
Are you sure about "-all" ?