Re: Lawsuits, angry business users, and SPF stupidity.

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:52 pm, Chris Drake wrote:
> What point am I missing?  Lets say my ISP uses SPF, and someone sends
> me an email outside their ISP's spf-enabled SMTP service.  That's my
> email that got blocked by SPF (yes - blocked - go read all the faq's -
> they all end up directing you to SMTP rules like "REJECT"!)
Blocked is not the same as dropped. The rejection will happen immediately 
after the MAIL FROM command and their own MTA will return them a bounce. No 
email is being swallowed.

If they wish to be authorised to send mail for that domain from their own 
host, they can take it up with their own domain's administrator, with whom 
they presumably already have some kind of relationship. 

I would say that is great improvement over trying to negotiate with a 
third-party ISP's spam filter (assuming such a filter is even responsible 
enough to notify them).

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