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Re: [spf-discuss] Exclusive v. Open SPF records

2005-09-04 09:36:31
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Gaven Henderson wrote:

So, can somebody explain to me the functional difference between neutral and
softfail?  Isn't that like saying "kind of grey" as opposed to "really

SOFTFAIL is for debugging, before switching to -all.  Receivers
are encouraged to send feedback (via DSN) for SOFTFAIL.  When you
get a SOFTFAIL DSN for a legit message, you have just found a bug
in your policy.  When all your SOFTFAIL DSNs are real forgeries,
it is time to switch to -all.

Not very many receivers actually do this at the moment ...

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