On Thursday 31 July 2008 12:53, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Scott Kitterman wrote:
On Thursday 31 July 2008 12:01, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Hello,
Today I received and email telling me I need SPF records. But with no
information. I sent an email back requesting headers but nothing came
back. This is worse than having no SPF. It really is spamming me.
Below is the email. I have SPF records that expect failures. What are
they talking about. One area, that I think SPF missed was CNAME. I
have tons of host/domain pairs with CNAME. I really dislike having to
change every CNAME into an A record.
SPF works fine with CNAMES. If their implementation can't follow the
CNAME, then it's broken (I coded part of the CNAME support in pyspf and I
know other libraries support it too).
I know pyspf supports it. I just do not understand where this came from.
The only thing I could find was that maybe a CNAME was being used. But a
dig did give me the apporiate TXT record which should have allowed them to
get an SPF fail.
I know, but today I have had about 30 emails telling me about lacking SPF
records. I really think there are broken libraries or something. I
finally went in and change 200 CNAMES to A records late yesterday.
People really need to provide headers rather than spamming. The email
really is a spam. No substance what's so ever. Broad general statements.
I have had SPF records from the very start. So this just really upsets
me. I use -all to fail any message not allowed by my record. I just
notice a coupld of emails claiming you can no use a ? before entries
before -all. Which according to RFC 4408 is reasonable. They must really
have a broken library, that does not follow the spec in any way shape or
form. I really do not know what they are talking about. Without headers
I am shooting in the dark at a problem I really should not have.
Sounds like it. AFAIK all the open source libraries support it.
IMO it's premature to reject mail from domains without SPF records and
spammers can get SPF records too, so I suspect their plan is not going to
give them the results they had hoped for (and that's without the bugs).
Personally, I haven't gotten any of these.
Scott K
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