On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 2:03:40 PM EST Ralph Seichter wrote:
> * Matus UHLAR:
> > Once again, SPF does not apply to mail headers.
> 
> Matus, I feel your frustration.
> 
> I mentioned RFC 7208 before in this thread. If only people would read
> section 2.2 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7208#section-2.2) ff., to
> understand how SPF authorization works and where in the STMP transaction
> it occurs.

And, amazing as it may seem to some people, we weren't blind to these kind of 
architectural issues when we wrote RFC 7208.  There's even an appendix [1] 
devoted to discussion of alternatives available to ameliorate such issues.

This was argued approximately to death in 2004/2005 when SPF was first 
standardized and repeatedly since then.  I think it's been at least a good 
decade since anyone had any new ideas on the topic.

There is a mailing list devoted to giving people help with SPF [2].  Asking 
SPF specific questions is really more on topic there.

Scott K

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7208#appendix-D
[2] https://spf.topicbox.com/groups/spf-help


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