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Re: Is there a test site

2003-12-11 12:52:55
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:35:41PM +0100, Rob Kaper wrote:
| On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:25:07AM -0500, marrandy wrote:
| > So once we set the DNS records, we can send a test mail and see if a 
working 
| > SPF mail server will pass or fail.
| 
| It's not an official test server or anything, but if you want to you can use
| devnull(_at_)capsi(_dot_)com(_dot_) Note that I won't be able to verify soft 
failures as all
| mail not actually failing will end up in /dev/null.
| 
| But hard failures will return 550. I realize that while SPF is still under
| development I risk false positives, but then that's what testing is for,
| isn't it?

The thing with soft failures is fine, because I'm deprecating the
SOFTFAIL response (~all) and equating it to (?all), since they are
functionally equivalent.


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