Scott Kitterman wrote:
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Well make sure your record has correct syntax and doesn't
exceed any processing limits before you publish because if
you get it wrong, your mail will get rejected."
I think that will be a hard sell on spf-help.
Wayne's -00 draft is now the "official" draft for more than
four months. If some tools like the SPF wizard still have a
serious problem to count to ten, then they are partially
broken.
The fact that it should stay away from proposing ptr is also
not new, I can't guess how often you had to post the same
question in spf-help, "are you sure that you need the ptr ?".
If users with difficulties to count to ten try to publish SPF
policies I can only pray that it's only about their own mail
and domain, and not affecting other users of the same domain.
You think that it could discourage new users. I was much more
worried about Radu's results with incredibly complex sender
policies, among others Pobox, RR, your policy, and IIRC Terry
also said something about some dummy include-s referencing
non-existing policies as a good idea. It's not, it's an error.
Bye, Frank