On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Daniel Lorch wrote:
SPF provides a mechanism of designating valid outbound smtp servers for a certain domain. This value is then matched against the Envelope-From (Return-Path) of an e-mail (except for SA 3.0, which also does HELO header-checking, but that's non-standard and merely a fallback mechanism).
Following well-known sites (fortune 100 blah blah blah) have already adopted SPF. Not convinced, yet?
No..... not convinced. For new technologies it's often needed to have early adopters on the 'bleeding' edge, in order to convince the rest of the community that something is working/feasible.
But this is really an area where things should be standardised and that's
exactly what the IETF marid-WG is trying to do. The RFC-process might
sometimes be slow, but it's the way to do it in the Internet. All proposals (including SPF) will be discussed today at the WG-meeting at
the 60th IETF conference in San Diego, hopefully they'll find a consent,
but as it stands now, SPF is still just one of many rfc-drafts.
Daniel Lorch Full-time SPF evangelist
Patrick Gu�lat Full-time Internet evangelist
