Hi,
it could be that they just want to evaluate the ammount
of emails which get rejected by SPF aware MTAs and to
evaluate the distribution level/market share of these MTAs.
Could be also that they just dont know what they are doing :-)
My 10 ct's
Stefan
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Stephane Bortzmeyer
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:50 AM
To: spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
Subject: [spf-discuss] Re: v=spf1 include:spf-a.hotmail.com
include:spf-b.hotmail.
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:20:53PM -0500, mholm(_at_)medrad(_dot_)com
<mholm(_at_)medrad(_dot_)com> wrote a message of 10 lines which said:
Well, it would be nice if they populated the spf records for
spf-a.hotmail.com and spf-b.hotmail.com In fact, it would
be nice if
the domains existed at all! Perhaps I just caught them in
mid stream.
No, it is still broken and you can see it in your logs:
Nov 4 02:25:41 eve postfix/policy-spf[19936]: SPF unknown:
smtp_comment=SPF record error: Missing SPF record at
spf-a.hotmail.com, header_comment=eve: error in processing
during lookup of blacksalopes(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com
It is Hotmail, it is Microsoft, no wonder.
<helicopter color="black">
It is probably part of a great plan to show that SPF does not work.
</helicopter>
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