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Re: What to include...

2004-10-05 10:49:01
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:43:53PM -0400, Mark Shewmaker wrote:
| 
| (Mini-Rant:  I wish we could ignore the helo scope completely within spf
| tests, and simply reject all messages where the A record for the HELO
| domain doesn't include the incoming IP address.  I sort of wish a few of
| the larger ISPs would start enforcing that, causing everyone to fix
| their servers within a few months--if that *could* happen, we could
| ignore this whole HELO scope thing completely with regards to spf, just
| doing HELO tests separately and simply, without entrenching further
| complication of HELO tests such that one machine is allowed to claim to
| be another--something that HELO isn't supposed to do in the first
| place.)
| 

The larger ISPs would be very happy to do that, if you would
be willing to answer their customer complaint phone calls
that would result.




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