On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:27:47PM +0200,
Frank Ellermann <nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de> wrote
a message of 29 lines which said:
But I'd never remove or change a -all, there are better options.
Do what you want. My idea was not to constrain you but to free the
others :-)
SPF without -all is a complete waste of bandwidth and time.
With ?all, you never have FAIL but you still have the PASS, which are
important for my whitelists.
If -all becomes mandatory, I will certainly *not* deploy SPF. I do not
want my "~/.forward" to break suddenly (and if you say that I should
switch from forwarding to remailing right now, I would reply they have
different semantics, specially when the mail cannot be
delivered. Without any real deployment of SRS or BATV - which are only
proofs of concept at this time - I will *not* use -all.)
The rest is a bit off-topic:
[some remarks about RfC 3865 censored, because this would cost me
the write access to MARID].
I cannot speak for the MARID Police but, since RFC 3865 "A No
Soliciting Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service Extension"
talks about a related issue, informed opinions on RFC 3685 may be
useful to MARID, specially if you talk about how it combines with
MARID.