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ben(_at_)ben(_dot_)com: you use both "fail" and "deny" in SPF

2003-10-06 10:26:22
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:19:25PM -0400, Pobox Customer Support wrote:
| Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 18:55:56 -0700
| To: pobox(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com
| From: Ben Jackson <ben(_at_)ben(_dot_)com>
| Subject: you use both "fail" and "deny" in SPF [PTN.20031005.0080B]
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| Your SPF pages refer to "fail" and "softfail" several times but I
| think you mean "deny" and "softdeny".  You should get it straight
| before both are widespread and implementors have to support both
| possibilities.
| 

is it too much to have "deny" and "softdeny" be in the SPF response
type, while "fail" and "softfail" appear in the Received-SPF header?

i think of allow/softdeny/deny as the opinion returned by SPF, and
pass/fail as the interpretation by the MTA policy engine.

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