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[spf-discuss] Re: MS Puts SID Patents Under Open Specification Promise

2006-11-01 08:54:42
Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:

I believe we have seen something similar, years ago, on this list.
Frank if memory serves me well?

My case or the almost identical "Olson-objection" was that:

 xyzzy.claranet.de : "v=spf1 something -all" (not under my control)
 mailoutx.hamburg.example + hamburg.example : "" (no SPF policy)

 EHLO mailoutx.hamburg.example
 MAIL FROM:<me(_at_)hamburg(_dot_)example>
 DATA
 ...
 From: nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de
 ...

The MSA.hamburg.example "enforced submission rights" to harden its
SMTP-after-POP setup, therefore I had to use <me(_at_)hamburg(_dot_)example>
as MAIL FROM, as specified in RFC 4409 6.1 (at that time 2476 6.1).

Otherwise my MUA doesn't care which provider I use to send pending
mails in its "outbox", it won't add any "Sender" header field.  The
MSA also didn't care what I do within my mail, it only verified the
MAIL FROM.
 
Therefore the PRA was nobody(_at_)xyzzy, and any SenderID PRA check of
"my" SPF policy - the "my" is limited to "I proposed it, and my ISP
implemented it" - would result in a PRA FAIL.

In theory that's still the case, in practice I don't use this MSA
anymore.  Nobody bothered to tell my ISP that they might wish to
"opt-out" from PRA because that was proposed in some obscure draft
published about six months after "my" perfectly fine SPF policy.

Frank


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