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

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Dec 4 15:17:23 UTC 2006


On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:15:15PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Alain Williams wrote:
> >>SPF is a waste of everyone's time and effort.  Ignore it, it'll go away.
> >
> >I disagree ... my logs show that I refuse to accept quite a bit of mail 
> >because
> >it fails SPF checks ... I have looked at little closer at some of them & it
> >seems to be doing the right thing.
> 
> what portion of the Internet uses SPF ?

No idea, but more & more are using it.

> and have you chosen to just black list the rest ?

No: if they don't publish SPF then I just can't do any checks, so I have to accept the mail.

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
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