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.forward issues

2003-10-20 16:20:51
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:54AM +0100, Roy Badami wrote:
| draft needs to say more about it.  In particular, I would like to see
| two things in the draft:
| 
| * a section in the SPF draft itself that identifies the problem.
| 
| * a clear statement that it is the responsibility of the _receiving_
|   party to solve this problem, eg by whitelisting, or by ensuring that
|   the forwarders all comply with SRS or something similar, before
|   deploying SPF checks (see also my comment on sunrise).
| 
| Put another way, if I publish (correct) SPF records for my domain, and
| then send a message to A, who forwards to B, who then applies SPF
| checks and bounces the mail, it should be clear from the spec that
| it's B that's at fault, and not me.  Publishing SPF records mustn't
| carry with it a responsibility not to send mail to mail forwarding
| accounts, since that's clearly unworkable (and will act as a
| disincentive to publish the records).
| 

Section 5.1 describes the problem; is that satisfactory?

Assigning fault is not within the scope of an RFC; but I will devote a
section of the web site to working around .forward problems.

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