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Re: [spf-discuss] Re: Does anyone actually filter by spf records?

2005-11-21 11:34:38
Frank Ellermann wrote:

Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

Big mail providers can't generally reject on SPF FAIL except
with explicit user permission.

As far as I'm concerned (with a FAIL policy) they can, that's
the very idea of SPF's FAIL.  Old 251-forwarding is broken by
design (since RfC 1123).
                        Bye, Frank

It's a nice theory, but if our experience here at Agilent is any indication, we see over 1500/million messages to our (double opt-in) customer lists which are forwarded in such a broken manner (as indicated by macro expansion DNS queries). Presumably the actual number is significantly higher as the number of domains checking/enforcing SPF records is
still limited.

Cheers,
 Kurt
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Kurt Andersen <kurta(_at_)agilent(_dot_)com>
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Global Messaging Team, Agilent Technologies
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