On 06/10/2010, at 12:17 PM, John Peach wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:13:25 +1100
> James Gray <ja...@gray.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 06/10/2010, at 9:37 AM, Noel Butler wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 23:46 +0200, mouss wrote:
>>>> Le 04/10/2010 23:03, Terry Gilsenan a écrit : 
>>>>> Configure postfix to use SPF, and setup an SPF record in DNS for that 
>>>>> domain.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> then what? you reject mail because of spf fail? that would lead to false 
>>>> positives...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> We've used it for years, had very little complaints, maybe half a dozen in 
>>> all that time. 
>>> SPF is a "must use" IMHO, and by use of  "-all" ...  providing you 
>>> configure your DNS correctly.
>> 
>> ...and then a user puts in a .forward file (or equivalent) to send mail to 
>> another address.  Now SPF if broken on the forwarded account as your mail 
>> server very likely doesn't have an SPF record for the original sender.  
>> Ooops - SPF is broken in these situations and therefore can't be used to 
>> arbitrarily reject messages on SPF failures.  The best it can do is be added 
>> as a heuristic to an overall message evaluation (spamassassin et al).
> 
> We neither publish nor use SPF records; broken by design.


Hi John,

Agreed - sorry about the wording in my previous.  I didn't want it to sound 
like "your" mail system specifically.  No offence intended.

Cheers,

James

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