Charles,

You're at least partially correct in making that statement.  In our case
though, most legitimate email to our server has an SPF record.  We do get
emails from Yahoo users and Yahoo does not use SPF, they exclude it entirely
in favor of their own DKIM... NIH in action, IMHO.  Don't misunderstand me,
there's nothing wrong with DKIM... it's a great mechanism but they really
should publish an SPF record as well (again, IMHO).

Still - simply penalizing "SPF: none" results is a workaround.  If the
domain portion of the "MAIL FROM" (and possibly the "HELO" according to
RFC4408) identities do not match the reverse-lookup (PTR), then the message
should be considered suspect if there is no SPF record to validate the
mismatch.  As far as I know, ASSP does not check this case yet.

Regards,

- Phil

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Re: [Assp-user] SPF None (spfnonValencePB) setting is ignored
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27403449> 
From: Charles Marcus <CMarcus@Me...> - 2011-04-24 02:20
On 4/22/2011 2:59 PM, Phil Quesinberry wrote:
> Since most legitimate domains have an SPF record,
 
This is a really bad and WRONG false presumption.
 
-- 
 
Best regards,
 
Charles



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