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Re: SPF syntax errors

2003-10-28 11:56:23
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:54:26PM -0500, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
| On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:47:48AM -0600, wayne wrote:
| | In <20031028161901(_dot_)GJ17304(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com> Meng 
Weng Wong <mengwong(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
| | >
| | > misspelled official directives are ignored.  publishers are expected to
| | > use a validation tool.
| | 
| | I thought that syntax errors cause the SPF processing to be aborted
| | and to return "unknown".  Is there something that overrides your
| | message of <20031025012146(_dot_)GM17304(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com> 
that says:
| 
| Syntax errors appear to SPF clients as unknown extensions.  Unknown
| extensions are ignored.

perhaps we need to clarify what we mean by syntax errors.  i was
following your apparent definition of "syntax error" above.

if somebody mistypes "mx" as "xm", that is treated as an unknown
extension and ignored.

if somebody provides two default directives, that is a syntax error, and
the result is immediately "unknown".



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