[Gllug] Configuring SPF to cope with secondary incoming mail servers

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Thu Dec 7 14:25:55 UTC 2006


On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, David Damerell wrote:

> >What I can guarantee is that our users wont loose mail because of the 
> >stupidity of such senders.
> 
> No, you can't. Senders at a broken site are going to have problems
> sending sometimes no matter what you do.

OK, I should have worded that better - what I can guarantee is that my 
servers will behave in a manner to best address that problem which as an 
ISP I am supposed to do.

> But the question isn't _for_ ISPs; it's for individual mail sites
> considering a secondary MX that cannot implement their own policies.

Part of the question was the issue of using 3rd party backup MX services 
(such as provided by ISPs).

Jason
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