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

2005-09-05 16:24:49
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

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.

Or you've found a forwarder who dosn't do SRS.

If I send an email through a forwarder that dosn't do SRS, and if the
recipient has strict SPF checking, my email will discarded.

So I have ~all instead of -all at the end of my spf record.

When I can be fairly confident that any random recipient I send mail
to will not go thorugh a forwarder that dosn't do SRS, then I can change
to -all.

 When all your SOFTFAIL DSNs are real forgeries,
it is time to switch to -all.

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