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On Friday 17 September 2004 09:17 am, Scott Kitterman wrote:
Rejecting on a NEUTRAL result is a violation of the spec and it's going
to hurt SPF as a whole. If someone has published a record the produces a
NEUTRAL result, then they probably have a reason for it. It may be that
they are trying to avoid falsely authorizing e-mails they didn't send (my
reason) or it may be that they are trying to spam you and piggyback on
someone else's ?all record. There's no way you can know without looking
at the message contents (which is what you would do if there was no SPF).
Please, just follow the spec. Many of us depend on it.
I think you are seeing the next generation of email come into action. as
Meng has described. It isn't the responsibility of receivers to accept
email. They get to pick and choose what kinds of emails they will accept.
Their only duty is to tell the sender that their message wasn't accepted.
It is the responsibility of the senders to make sure their message gets
through.
If you need your messages to get through, you are responsible for
identifying the mail servers that send email for you and listing those as
'+'. You are also responsible for maintaining your domain name so that it
has a good reputation. If you want to engage with this particular person,
you need to get your domain added to his whitelist.
You should call your ESP and tell them that your mail is getting rejected
because they won't SMTP AUTH their senders.
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Jonathan M. Gardner
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