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Re: [spf-discuss] Is this SPF record valid

2006-05-04 15:15:09
Wouldn't you have to use a custom DNS resolver for that?

On 5/4/06, Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com> wrote:

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Scott Kitterman wrote:

> >    "v=spf1 ip4:209.10.78.213 ip4:209.11.34.214 ip4:170.224.107.71"
> >    "a:mailer.communityconnect.com a:mailer.blackplanet.com a:
mailer2.commun
> >     ityconnect.com ~all"
> >
> Not valid as you say.  Using my validator,
> www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html, I get:
>
> Results - PermError SPF Permanent Error: Invalid IP4 address:
> ip4:170.224.107.71a:mailer.communityconnect.com
>
> As you say, when there are multiple strings, they are just
concatenated.  No
> space is added.

I can see a LAX mode feature where in case of a PERMERROR, it might
try concatenating substrings *with* a space as one of the heuristics
to guess what was meant (after sending a DSN with the diagnostic, of
course).

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