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Re: Summary: Current state of SPF

2004-01-30 11:28:12
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:19:55PM -0600, Dustin D. Trammell wrote:
| 
| Of course the other option is to have the order not matter at all, and
| we check all the mechanisms and if any of them return a PASS that is the
| result.  Since we don't have different result codes like PASS:A or
| PASS:MX, and we can't really tell which mechanism created the result,
| which mechanism created the result really doesn't matter in the end.
| However, if we want strict SPF1 parsers to balk on syntax errors or
| unrecognized modifiers, we have to parse the entire record anyhow.

I wanted to avoid that.  I wanted to give domain owners a way to
minimize DNS traffic.  They know which rules are most likely to match
and which should be tried last.

Parsing the entire record is not hard.

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