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Re: Extensibility and Accreditation

2004-01-22 18:25:17
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:32:34PM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
| 
| So why does the accreditation information need to be in the SPF string?
| Why not add it to SMTP or RFC822 or even fudge it in the address itself.
| 
| But as long as the accreditation _can_ simply be ignored without having
| to take the abort default in SPF, I guess it won't really hurt if it is
| present.  But that shouldn't be that much data.  A domain name is all
| you need.  If you're going to ask your reputation source, that can include
| the rest of the accreditation access data (like what URL to use).

Yes, accreditation data can always be ignored.  That's why it's
implemented as a modifier, using =.  Unknown modifiers may be ignored by
SPF parsers.  The only two required modifiers are exp and redirect.

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