On Mar 26, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Julian Mehnle wrote: > There are two parts to SPF: publishing SPF records for one's > domains, and > checking SPF on incoming messages. Everyone can do the SPF checking > part, even if they cannot publish SPF records themselves for whatever > reason. SPF's alias-style forwarding issues aside, "Pass" results, > when > achieved, are perfectly reliable and accurately indicate that the > envelope sender address can safely be bounced to.
I was part of the original SPF working group, you're singing to the choir. But for various reasons many organizations publish wide-open SPF records, and right or wrong those people will still report backscatter to the blacklists. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
