On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:58:34PM -0700, Commerco WebMaster wrote:
my company is telling any parties checking (and fully expect them to
understand in publishing the above) that this domain does not send email
messages at all - EVER. Therefore, what I also expect to happen is that a
receiving MTA / SMTP server will simply junk anything seen with a FROM
address using that domain or any sub domain in it.
You can advertise your policy but you cannot make the receiver do what
your want.
And I'm not entirely sure about the status of looking up the zone cut.
Most likely there are plenty of clients that do not look at subdomains.
From my selfish publisher perspective, absolutely any and all other issues
are moot, if the basic premise of the SPF system is no longer
applicable. At that point, we might as well just pack our bags and leave
the project and I for one have no intention of doing that. The base stated
functionality of SPF MUST supercede any other concern without exception.
At the moment there are plenty of domains experimenting with SPF. Some
of those _are_not_ sure, yet they do publish -all.
I think that is good enough reason not to reject. I do agree that one
should not bounce, auto-reply or whatever to such messages.
regards,
Alex