Yes.  One of the flaws of SPF.  However, you can also use a weaker SPF
record that says basically that you don't know what mail server it is coming
from.  Not much point in that except to say that you're using SPF, though I
suppose it might be possible that a particular mail admin might penalize
sites that haven't implemented SPF in spam weighting.

A caveat on the above flaw: SPF does have the ability to reference another
domains SPF records, so if the ISP in question has implemented SPF you
should be able to "inherit" their SPF implementation by referencing it in
your own.  I haven't had an occasion to try that out yet, though.

Darin.


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From: "David Dodell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:45 AM
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Records and Off-Network Customers


I have a customer who I host their domain.

Up to last week, all of their email was sent through us using SMTP
Auth.

However, his local ISP started blocking port 25 outbound, so he is now
forced to use the local ISP for sending his outbound email.

In setting up his SPF records, it appears if I understand this
correctly, that I'm going to have to list his ISP IP addresses of all
of their outbound MTA boxes?

If so, isn't this going to be a major hassle for SPF verification when
individuals are using virtual domains but using local ISP for outbound
SMTP service?

David

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