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RE: Just how many of the boxen really *need* to be in the spf rr

2004-03-31 12:49:17
At 10:41 AM 3/31/2004, Seth Goodman wrote:
I'm not up-to-date on the SPF RFC, but is this forward lookup part of the
spec?  If not, it probably should be.  Many mail clients do this as part of
their local IP heuristics anyway, so it wouldn't be adding overhead to any
well-configured site.

Short answer: Yes.
http://spf.pobox.com/mechanisms.html#ptr (not the RFC, but where I saw it)
http://spf.pobox.com/spf-draft-20040209.txt section 4.6

Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>