On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:59:04AM -0600, wayne wrote:
|
| I agree with the scaling problems and the problems of weaning people
| off the magic DNS server. However, the "solution" to both of these
| problems may be each other. If a timeout/lookup failure is failsafe
| (it should be), then simply letting the magic DNS server get
| overloaded will natually cause people to stop using it.
|
| This would let many MTAs, not just sendmail, to very quickly add a few
| lines to their config, see that it works well, notice that "#(_at_)^$%^
| this is slow!" and then go through the effort of doing it right. For
| systems that do very little email processing, this could still be a
| good, semi-long term solution. They wouldn't need to worry about
| keeping the SPF software up to date.
|
Well, before we go too far down this path, let's see what comes along in
the way of native C patches to Qmail and Sendmail. I have a feeling
something may appear next week.
-------
Sender Permitted From: http://spf.pobox.com/
Archives at http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss/current/
Latest draft at http://spf.pobox.com/draft-mengwong-spf-02.9.4.txt
To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your
subscription,
please go to
http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname(_at_)©#«Mo\¯HÝÜîU;±¤Ö¤Íµø?¡