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Re: Interpreting Results From Multiple "Identical" RR Sets (Was several threads on type 99)

2005-08-12 08:45:09
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:30:10AM -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote:

One could reject or DSN on errors, to let the publishing domain
owner know that they have a problem, but since this _is_ e-mail
and the default has always been "when in doubt, deliver", it makes
more sense to treat SPF errors as a lack of a (compliant) SPF record.
i.e. if you can't be bothered to publish properly, your record
     will be ignored and you gain no benefit from it.

By the same reasoning: if there is an error in the only MX record,
deliver to the A record instead.

As we know, this isn't true therefore I think the same logic doesn't
need to apply for SPF as well.

Ignoring SPF records can be considered dangerous.  It may be hard
to debug and it could result in users thinking SPF has no value.

Alex