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Re: Email notifications and SPF


  • From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson  
  • Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:46:20 +0200

Fife and Drum Webring wrote:
Without a valid SPF record, the "From" is likely a spoofed address
and will get flagged as spam (and possibly just discarded once SPF
usage becomes widespread by the major ISPs).

I hope that those who check for SPF will distinguish between a failed check for a domain that has published SPF data, and a failed check for a domain that has no SPF record.

Discarding or bouncing messages from domains without SPF records would
create chaos, at least in the forseeable future.

/ Gunnar


Follow-Ups from:
Fife and Drum Webring

References to:
James S. Huggins \(RLOpen\)
Fife and Drum Webring

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