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RE: Email Forwarder's Protocol ( EFP )

2005-02-22 09:16:35
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, David MacQuigg wrote:

How do you currently handle soft fails?

At first, I returned a TEMP fail with a suggesting to the sender that they
might have an error in their SPF record since the result was SOFTFAIL.
This is friendly response for senders actually using SOFTFAIL as a
transition to -all.  

However, the vast majority of senders seem to regard SOFTFAIL as 
"vaguely suspect" and don't intend to ever fix their SPF record.
So, now I simply pass SOFTFAIL on in a Received-SPF header and let
the bayesian filter keep stats on whether it correlates with SPAM.

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