Re: more Anti-spam countermeasures

[Pete]

gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Btw, it's unfortunate that they seem not to be able to agree on *one* standard for sender authentication. That will likely delay the adoption of the concept among domain owners and mail server administrators.

Seems SPF is the standard, with Domain Keys being there only to handle the e-mail properties that SPF doesn't:

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SPF temporarily represents a silver lining in the Internet cloud. Adding to your servers a small SPF-compliant text file would require very little time and might slightly improve your e-mail delivery success rate. Microsoft's own Hotmail and MSN e-mail services — as a first step toward a full-blown e-mail authentication scheme — will start giving brownie points to SPF-compliant e-mail this October or soon thereafter.

It's too early to tell whether Sender ID or Domain Keys will emerge as the winner to handle e-mail properties that SPF doesn't.

But it's not too soon to say that Domain Keys is a stronger proposal to clean up the e-mail mess than Microsoft's more limited and patent-entangled Sender ID.

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3413611
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