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Re: [Asrg] misconception in SPF

2012-12-09 02:50:37
At 11:03 08-12-2012, Bill Cole wrote:
If that sentence is not mis-worded, it is a declaration of ignorance of important fundamental facts about how email works. RFC5321 is required reading for anyone who wants

The sentence is likely incorrectly phrased.

There are many strong arguments for mail systems to refrain from attempting to require strict compliance to many details of the SMTP and email format standards, but it is unhelpful to assume that historically or even currently widespread forbearance of operational enforcement of some facet of the standards grants any sort of validity to non-compliant messages.

Yes.

Regards,
-sm
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