Dnia 17.06.2022 o godz. 21:35:08 Brandon Long via mailop pisze:
> There is a limit to the utility of that thing, however, ie SPF passing doesn't
> mean a message isn't spam,

And the reverse is true as well - SPF failing doesn't mean the message is
spam. Neither does it mean it is fake - just because of aspects discussed in
this thread (forwarding or mailing lists). That was the main goal of SPF -
ensuring that the message isn't fake - and it cannot even fulfill that one
goal properly. Why even use it at all?

Therefore, myself personally don't consider SPF nor DKIM being of any value
*at all* with regard to spam protection. I use them outbound, solely because
Google requires them; otherwise I wouldn't bother to implement them as I
never had any problems with any recipient besides Google due to lack of SPF
or DKIM. I completely ignore them on inbound mail. After passing RBLs and
some manual allow/deny lists, content analysis is *everything* that matters.

Yes, I know content analysis doesn't scale well. And that is the exact
problem of Google - your mail system has become too big to be effectively
manageable. Everything else are just results of this one problem.

A million of small mail operators serving 1000 accounts each will always
perform better than one big operator serving one billion accounts.
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   Jaroslaw Rafa
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