Re: What Meng said

On Aug 13, 2004, at 12:05, Carl S. Gutekunst wrote:
> Andrew W. Donoho wrote:
>
> > .... there is a very real chance that marketing may overwhelm the standards process. We should tread carefully here. The rush to specification for Sender-ID seems ill advised.
> >
> > ... The PRA and other mechanisms may offer value but, because of their complexity, should be deferred until these simpler mechanism's specifications are finalized. 
>
> Thank you for the most rational and sensible post I've seen on this list in the past two months. Please, folks, can we pick some of the low-hanging fruit first?
>
> Incidentally, Andrew, I tried to reply to you directly, but your SPF check bounces my mail. It does not appear that there is any way for me to send E-mail to you from any of my legitimate accounts.


Carl,

Thank you for the kind words.

Here are the offending entries from my mail log.

<x-tad-bigger>11:58:46.69 4 SMTPI-80515(conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net) cmd: MAIL FROM:<csg(_at_)habeas(_dot_)com> SIZE=2651
11:58:46.69 4 SMTPI-80515(conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net) SPF(habeas.com) checking
11:58:47.03 1 SMTPI-80515(conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net) Return-Path 'csg(_at_)habeas(_dot_)com' rejected: sender domain does not match SPF records
11:58:49.03 4 SMTPI-80515(conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net) rsp: 587 csg(_at_)habeas(_dot_)com sender domain does not match SPF records
11:58:49.03 4 SMTPI-80515(conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net) cmd: RCPT TO:<awd(_at_)ddg(_dot_)com>
11:58:51.03 4 SMTPI-80515(conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net) rsp: 501 Unknown command
11:58:51.03 4 SMTPI-80515(conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net) cmd: DATA
</x-tad-bigger>

Here is your SPF record:

habeas.com.             76012   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a mx ptr ip4:66.120.210.129/27 -all"


In other words, my mail server did what your policy said to do - reject. You may want to talk to your DNS administrator.

Best Regards,
Andrew
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