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Re: Is SPF Authenication or Authorization?

2004-09-21 11:14:35

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:08:04 -0400, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
  From the receiver's point of view, the sender is
   authenticated or unauthenticated.


As who is doing the critical test and what question they are trying to answer.

These mechanisms are intended to get receivers to accept mail, so the 
receiver's 
point of view is the critical one.

From that perspective, SPF attempts to authenticate the RFC2821.MailFrom field.

d/
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