On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:25:22 +0100 (BST) Jasper Wallace
<jasper(_at_)pointless(_dot_)net> wrote:
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.
I've had a -all record on my (small) domains for over a year now and I have
never gotten a rejection due to forwarding. It's also only a minute
fraction of the questions/complaints submitted via the web site.
The significance of the forwarding issue varies a lot depending on the user
base. For you, the time may well be now.
Scott K
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