Re: [Asrg] spf2.0

[Jeff Macdonald <jmacdonald at e-dialog.com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:30:46AM -0500, Richard Rognlie wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:12:01AM -0800, Steve Atkins wrote:
> > SenderID is dead. The only group that every liked it was Microsoft /  
> > Hotmail, and even they don't publish it. Any records you see are  
> > mostly just fossil relics of an earlier era.
>
> And one SenderID/SPF issue that you *will* run into is that...
>
> The Sender ID spec tells you that if you see a v=spf1 record, you should
> treat it as though it were spf2.0/mfrom,pra when, in fact, if *should*
> be treated as though it were spf2.0/mfrom.  any assumption of "pra" is
> not necessarily a valid read of the sending domains wishes.

that is why we use spf2.0/pra records for our clients (in addition to
v=spf1 records). So I think as long as MS abuses v=spf1 records,
SenderID lives....


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Jeff Macdonald
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