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Re: Comment on RFC draft, section 9.1

2004-01-07 21:56:36
Jim Ramsay wrote:

I think I would find it personally useful for there to be a well-defined way of knowing whether a "pass" is a "tight match" or a "loose match"

By "tight match" I mean the domain specifies ?all or -all

By "loose match" I mean the domain specifies +all

I don't think we should do anything drastic like have 'pass' and 'pass-loose', but maybe there could be a well-defined string in the comment field denoting this "loose match" situation so that later filters may be able to adjust spam scoring higher for loose matches.

I know I can just hack my server implementation myself to do this (or to find out if they do it already), but I think it may be useful to others as well, so it may be nice to have this somewhat standardized, or at least a "suggested practice" for implementors.

What say you?

I relate to the part that wants to see more information in the comment part of the Received-SPF header. In particular, maybe having the mechanism that matched explicitly as part of the comment field would be useful. You could then work out whether the message passed due to the 'all' or some other mechanism.

Philip

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