Saturday, September 11, 2004, 7:04:55 AM, Darin Cox wrote:

> 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.

This is not good ... I don't see SPF becoming a useful tool, since I
have a few customers in this particular situation, and without
widespread SPF implementation I don't see it particularly helpful.

> 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.

But this requires me to keep up each customers ISP ... what a pain.

And what happens when one travels?   I was traveling a few weeks ago,
and the hotel's IP connection had port 25 blocked ... so I couldn't
use my own SMTP server remotely using SMTP AUTH.  I called the hotel's
ISP and they opened up port 25 for my room's IP for my stay since I
was going to be there for a week, but the average person is not going
to do this.

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