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Re: SPF for Sendmail, without milter - preferably a ruleset

2004-01-08 09:55:44
Meng Weng Wong wrote:

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:46:38AM -0500, Philip Gladstone wrote:
| Do you think that we ought to goi ahead and do the magic DNS server for | those sendmail users who just want a single rule? My concern is that we | really want the SPF code incorporated inside sendmail, but that isn't | going to happen quickly. The magic DNS server stuff could be built and | tested in a few days -- though deploying an operational setup might take | longer (need to find well connected machines and produce detailed | operational plans).

That would work, but I'm worried that we'll see a scaling problem and
the magic DNS servers will be overwhelmed with traffic.  Is there
something I'm not seeing?

You are exactly correct -- it would only be of use during a migration period. The problem would then become of weaning people off the magic DNS server, and onto native code.

Philip

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