Well, maybe our views are different or I expressed myself bad :-) Receiving emails with missing SPF record will result in a higher "SPAM-rating" in our own spam filter system and therefore protecting our customer against spam. As far as I know the following results will be passed on from our mail server: none, pass, error, fail, unknown, softfail, neutral. To start with you could just rate "error" as "bad" or "pass" as "good" but I think that in future anything less then "pass" or "neutral" will reflect in our "SPAM-rating". It's not a question of "reject" or "accept" emails from others, but a rating part that will get more and more important.
The other way round it will protect others from spam comming from our networks - if they look at our SPF records. Luckily not much to worry about this most of the time. Btw: If a customer uses the email address as return-path of another one on the same server then this is traceble and I would not recommend doing it. If its just one of our access customer he either has to send through our mail server or SPF will "fail". Sorry - the discussion goes quite fast and I might have missed something...but I done't see where a "hosting-only" provider should have a specific problem - can you clarify? Regards Ralf Zenklusen Dipl. El-Ing HTL --- BAR Informatik AG Gliserallee 16 CH-3902 Brig-Glis Schweiz Tel: +41 27 922 4848 Fax: +41 27 922 4849 www.barinformatik.ch www.rhone.ch -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Daniel Lorch Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 15:38 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [swinog] Implementing SPF Hi > As soon as this is reached, everybody not using it will be "punished" with > bad spam filter results and that's a selling point. No no no, that's a misconception. I think already Tobias Orlamuende mentioned this question. If the SPF record is missing, you'll simply do nothing. You're not supposed to penalize domains without these records. However, with SPF support you'll get the extra protection for your domain(s) and implementing SPF is a matter of adding a TXT record to your DNS server. > I don't realy see a need for a script or something else...but maybe I've > missed something... You're also an access provider, we're a hosting-only provider. Different scenarios :) -- Kind Regards Daniel Lorch Positive Feedback Cycle Engineer Hostpoint GmbH � � � �| The Data Residence � �| Z�rcherstrasse 2 � � �| 8640 Rapperswil � � � | Schweiz Tel �+41 55 220 0404 �| Fax �+41 55 220 0409 �| www.hostpoint.ch _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.init7.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.init7.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
