On Wednesday 18 February 2004 13:28, wayne wrote:
I disagree with this assesment. Remember, we can't force domain
owners to publish SPF records. It is my opinion that the jump from
neutral to fail is too large. Large companies/ISP need to be able to
give their users some warning before they switch from neutral to
fail. While memos and such can help, automated systems that add
warnings when a softfail is detected can play a very important part.
It is equally possible for a company to tag mail that would fail with a
message "this message would have been rejected if SPF was being enforced".
Softfail is not required for this.
OTOH, it is better to reject a mail rather than accept it and then shove it
somewhere where it will never be seen. My point is that this is what softfail
appears to be intended to encourage.
- Dan