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Re: Possible SPF machine-domain loophole???

2004-02-23 12:51:57
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:14:53PM -0500, Hector Santos wrote:
| Meng (or anyone else who wish to comment),
| 
| Please correct me if I am wrong here, but I believe I found a loophole.
| 
| Having added support for both DMP and SPF.  The key difference seems to be
| DMP checks both; return path and machine domains,  SPF only fallbacks to the
| machine domain when the return path domain is NULL.
| 
| With DMP,  the logic is to check for the return path domain first of a
| DENY=ALLOW/DENY and fallback to the machine domain for possible spoofing.
| 
| With SPF,  if I read the specs right,  the logic is to check only the
| machine domain iff (if and only if) the return path domain is a null
| address.

Can you explain what you mean by

 - "machine domain", and
 - "check"

?