On 2/25/2010 6:37 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
A lot of posts with useless rants on a personal grievance against SPF
Marc,
I suspect you're not seeing a bunch of supporters of SPF post on this
thread because most find it tiresome, bothersome, pointless, or all of
the above. I bit my lip until now for all of those reasons, but can't
stand your continual whining. You're clearly only mad at SPF because of
the forwarding issue. As has been stated in a multitude of threads over
the years, including this one, SPF has its place for those that use it
in the way it was intended.
Although, I agree that FCrDNS is very useful, I'm also aware that it's
just another tool in the box. For some unfortunate reason, many
providers don't allow changes to PTR records to accommodate their
customers. SPF provides an alternate means by which domain owners can
publish useful mail source information on their own, regardless of
provider cooperation/competence.
Forwarding off-site has essentially been deprecated since spam filtering
began and the wide-spread availability of mail submission ports/relaying
via authentication. SPF isn't your problem, it's your ego. If you
proxy your connections, like the rest of your [much] bigger competitors
do, the forwarding issue goes away. Or, if you don't feel like coding,
ask your customers to use the SPF include directive where you can
publish additional allowable servers. SPF simply isn't the problem,
please stop whining.
/out
