Koen Martens wrote:
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..
Stuart's later example was quite convincing.
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| The SPF for my family domain is: gathman.org text
| "v=spf1 mx:bmsi.com ?ptr:cox.net ?ptr:earthlink.net -all"
But I'd agree that among UNKNOWN and SOFTFAIL there's one
useless result ;-) An excuse for SOFTFAIL offered by wayne
was that it helps to propagate SPF.
If SOFTFAIL is really meant to catch errors, then it could be
more interesting to use some kind of exists:%{i}.example.com
macro instead of SOFTFAIL, where *.example.com logs the event
and returns NXDOMAIN.
Asking recipients that they should send a DSN for SOFTFAIL is
IMHO asking too much.
Bye, Frank