To the past few days I’ve been getting more and more e-mail messages that are forging my own domain name to try and get a read them. So this is just a little thank you sent out to all the spammers who decided to forge my domain name, of which I am the only person that has an e-mail address, thinking that some random string of characters will get me to read the e-mail message.
Now of course this has been getting caught in my quarantine since the messages can’t get past the rest of the filters at spam free e-mail. A decent number of these spam and messages have been getting caught and placed in my bad list, although none of them have managed to make it into my actual e-mail in-box.
The reason I’m thanking spammers for this barrage of messages forging my own domain name is that I needed some inspiration of late, and they have now provided it. After looking at the messages I have come to the conclusion that they would have very easily failed in the SPF test. I had placed creating my own SPF filter on the back burner for while; I have almost everything in place for it except the actual logic to do the IP address checking.
Now thanks to a litany of messages to which I know for a fact have not come from my own domain name, or my e-mail servers for that matter I have been annoyed into action. It may not be today or tomorrow but definitely this has moved to the top of my priority list. So hopefully by the end of this week or next I will have my SPF filter in place.