Hi,
It all depends.. Usually, fail will mean reject, and everything else means to
let the mail through.
softfail is for testing purposes, for admins that feel uncertain and don't want
to use -all immediatelly. so softfail 'probably' means fail.
neutral is imho useless, it says nothing. it says 'this can either mean its
fail or pass, but we can't say for sure'.. or something like that..
Maybe you could search the archives, there has been a lot of discussion on this
a while back.
Koen
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 08:27:40AM -0500, Jonathan C. Detert wrote:
As you know, the mechanisms can be prefixed with 1 of 4 characters:
- : meaning, fail
~ : meaning, 'softfail'
+ : meaning, pass (the default)
? : meaning, 'neutral'
The meaning of fail and pass is obvious, but what do 'softfail' and
'neutral' mean? What will the MTA do if the result of the spf query is
'softfail'? What will the MTA do if the result is 'neutral' ?
Thanks
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