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Re: [spf-discuss] How can one alert domain admins of broken spf records

2006-06-08 13:05:19
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Scott Kitterman wrote:

Paragraph 2.5.2 of RFC 4408 says, "A "Neutral" result MUST be treated exactly 
like the "None" result; the distinction exists only for informational 
purposes."

So, while your approach works (and I agree it's reasonable), it is NOT 
consistent with a MUST in RFC 4408.

Actually, a NEUTRAL *is* treated identically to a NONE.  Whether SPF 
results directly in NEUTRAL, or a NONE results in applying the
guessed policy of "v=spf1 a mx ptr", the exactly same local policy
code is executed.  To put it another way, a NONE is always converted
to either a PASS or NEUTRAL guessed result via heuristics, and
the local NEUTRAL policy for that domain is applied whether the NEUTRAL
is a direct SPF result or guessed.

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