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Re: SPF receivers are weak link

2005-08-26 10:31:03
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Hector Santos wrote:

  - The current ugly "kissing cousin protocol" SRS is not part of 
    the package, so those with forwarding issues that they know 
   are real for their system, can only use a neutral/softfail.

Forwarding issues are a problem for receivers.  Senders can't possibly
know about forwarders - because the receiver sets them up!  By the above
logic, senders can never use -all unless they discover all the forwarders
configured by all potential recipients - and track them in real time.

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