> > I assume that you mean so that your outbound SMTP server is actually > authorized in some capacity and fall under "all". Is that correct?
indeed afaik -all is all authorized > > When you configure your spf your result is either pass, softfail or > fail > > I think we can agree that a correctly configured spf results in a > pass, > > don't you? > > I agree that known and authorized sources of email for my domain are > authorized in the SPF record for my domain. > > I thought you were alluding to a particular value of "all". I did not > understand your statement to be about servers being authorized or not. gmail/google/outlook are using ~all, resulting in the softfail. For those networks if have decided to treat only their ~all as a -all. > I've had a number of conversations with people of late that seem to > dislike "-all" almost as much as others dislike "+all". > I am always using -all. I honestly can't think of a good argument to use anything else.
