Kinda have to agree with Frank on this one. What is the point of having SPF records if you don't want mail receivers to abide by what you are asking of them (via an spf record)?
Brielle Sent from my iPhone > On May 19, 2017, at 4:47 PM, <frnk...@iname.com> <frnk...@iname.com> wrote: > > Yet the senders, via their SPF records with a "-all", told me to reject those > messages. As MTA's, we're doing what the send told us to do. > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Levine [mailto:jo...@taugh.com] > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 9:56 AM > To: mailop@mailop.org > Cc: frnk...@iname.com > Subject: Re: [mailop] Many SPF failures lately > > In article <002401d2d07c$de401730$9ac04590$@iname.com> you write: >> I turned on SPF checking on our incoming email server about two or three >> months and notified >> domain holders who were sending legitimate email from bad IPs, and there, >> too, some fixed up >> their SPF records, but the majority didn't do anything. So we keep >> rejecting those emails. Most >> of them tend to be from auto-notify systems (bank statements, receipts for >> purchases from online >> stores, etc). The recipients don't complain to the sender because they're >> not aware they were >> supposed to get an email, and since a human didn't send it, there's no one >> on the sending side >> chasing it down. Most well-known cuplprit is Travelocity and their flight >> change notifications. >> Too bad the travelers aren't getting notified. > > I must say I'm glad that I'm not one of your mail users. > > For my users, I have the quaint idea that I should try and deliver the > mail that they obviously want. > > R's, > John > > > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
