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Re: [spf-discuss] Re: Forwarder whitelisting counter-proposal: SPF "i-am=" modifier

2008-01-08 21:22:29
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 22:40, Julian Mehnle wrote:
Scott Kitterman wrote:
Don't both these proposals amount to "forwarders" saying "trust me I'm
a forwarder - you can just skip rejecting SPF Fail mail from me"?

No, you got both Michael and me wrong.  Each of our proposals is merely
trying to establish a solid identity that receivers can actually PUT on
their forwarder whitelist.  Of course receivers still have to explicitly
do that themselves.

With "i-am=", I can put "HELO=forwarder.org" on my whitelist, even if the
forwarder doesn't use that identity directly in their HELOs.  Currently I
cannot do that, but I'd rather have to list all their individual HELOs
(which are bound to change over time).

"i-am=" is merely an out-of-band reformulation of Michael's in-band (SMTP
extension) idea for transmitting an additional identity.

OK.  Fair enough.  That could be useful, although I'm not sure anything other 
than a regular SPF record is needed.

Scott K

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