On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:46:00AM -0600, Chris Blaise wrote: > > Personally, I find SPF pretty much useless. Yes, you can use > > it to score some mail, but implementation is not very > > widespread, so you either have to go hard-core and reject, or > > accept the mail anyway, in which case, why bother? > > What's "hardcore" about rejecting mail from addresses that are in > violation of published SPF records?
The interesting question about any individual piece of mail is, ``does the addressee want to receive it?'', not, ``through which server/s has it passed, and are they controlled by the owners of the sending domain?''. SPF may tell you the answer to the second question, in some cases; this may give you evidence about the answer to the first, but you certainly can't in general determine the answer to the first question from the answer to the second! -- ``After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.'' (P. J. O'Rourke) -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
