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Re: Dealing with SPF problems

2005-04-04 15:04:37
At 02:36 PM 4/4/2005 -0700, you wrote:

At 02:30 PM 04/04/2005, you wrote:
So, how does one go about getting big lazy corps to fix serious email
problems?

  Stop doing business with them and make sure they know why.  They have
no incentive to get their act together until it effects their bottom line.

And if all five of us do that, we might really get Blockbuster's attention. :>)

This is a problem SPF is going to continue having, and not just with Blockbuster. Other methods have similar problems - CSV insists that the HELO name be properly set up, with special SRV records, etc. Imagine the sysadmin at Blockbuster trying to decide whether to use CSV, SPF, SenderID, DomainKeys, ... It's no wonder the world is ignoring email authentication.

I suggest we give senders the option of declaring any identity they please. If they chose to use the HELO or MAIL FROM identity, they can do that by adding a flag *ID* just after the name they want to declare. If they want something else, they can add a string ID=<name> to either the HELO or MAIL FROM commands.

It's trivia like this that add five months delay to the universal adoption of email authentication.

-- Dave
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