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Re: Publishing of SPF Records

2004-04-15 05:37:02
Torsdag den 15. april 2004 14:25 skrev Stefan Engelbert:
But why would it kill SPF?

Read Wayne's e-mail. Multiplying bandwidth, processing time etc. with 
10 will make competing protocols from Microsoft etc. the preferred 
choice, and by the rule of survival of the fittest, SPF would be 
killed by introducing http lookups.

If I own domain abc.com I will be the
only one who can create http://abc.com/spf.txt so

You cannot make that assumption - some domain owners might give a 
person full control over the website, but they don't trust that 
person to be an expert in mail setups, or to know SPF. Also, not all 
domains that have e-mail have a webpage, which would give a timeout 
when trying to query for it.

Also, what URL should it fetch it from? Some people have 
http://www.domain.com/ working, but not http://domain.com/, and other 
people have it the other way around. You would need to specify the 
URL to fetch from, and that URL cannot be specified on a webserver, 
of course :-)

Lars.

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