Koen Martens wrote:
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..
Isn't neutral useful in cases where mail is relayed via a server you
don't control and that's also used to relay mail from other domains
(that could therefore forge mail from you)? I think pass in such a case
would be too strong a committment.
In other words:
pass : all mail that comes through that server for the specified domain
is really from it
fail : no mail could possibly come through that server for the specified
domain
softfail: no mail could possibly come through that server for the
specified domain but don't reject as it's still a testing phase
neutral : mail coming from that server is for the specified domain, but
there is still the possibility of a forgery
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