Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-17 Thread Noel Butler
On 15/12/2017 15:40, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > All that SPF authenticates is the RFC5321.From, which is rarely visible to > the end user and trivial for phishers to work around. > > Brandon And its often all that's needed, no its not complete, no its not perfect, but nothing ever is -

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-17 Thread Noel Butler
On 15/12/2017 14:28, John Levine wrote: > In article <6582089ce2ad3fb3fd074ada73672...@ausics.net>, > Noel Butler wrote: > >> Agreed, if I publish a -all (which I do and have done for a very very >> long time), I expect receivers doing SPF processing of my domains >> messages, to honor that!

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-15 Thread Michael Peddemors
And for my feedback.. We use -all for important domains, involved in ecommerce or confidential data. And yes, sometimes we get a bounce, because someone forwarded their email to another party, but it is rare.. (and forwarding should be discouraged). However, it is better than the risk of ab

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations (was: Re: Earthlink trouble with our PTR)

2017-12-15 Thread Al Iverson
You're not wrong. I would only say say that perhaps this makes -all harmless versus something one truly needs to worry about or avoid. There's a lot of past, quite possibly bogus, guidance where we were all pushed as ESP senders to implement -all, given the impression that once upon a time it prov

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-15 Thread Philip Paeps
On 2017-12-15 10:06:44 (+1000), Noel Butler wrote: On 15/12/2017 09:27, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: On 12/14/2017 03:28 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: My point is that -all is policy, and most people ignore the policy portions of SPF because it completely fails a lot of forwarding cases

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Brandon Long via mailop
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:16 PM Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: > On 12/14/2017 06:23 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: > > If you want to argue more loudly that you *do* understand what it means > > you could publish a matching DMARC record with p=discard. Doing that > would > > tell recipient ISPs that ei

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Bill Cole
On 14 Dec 2017, at 22:09 (-0500), Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: What happens when a lot of people shoot themselves in the foot and receivers start giving DMARC less and less credence. Will we then need something new to convince them that I really do mean what I publish? Yes. It will happe

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Brandon Long via mailop
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:05 PM Noel Butler wrote: > On 15/12/2017 10:29, st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: > > > > December 15, 2017 1:12 PM, "Noel Butler" wrote: > > On 15/12/2017 09:27, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: > > On 12/14/2017 03:28 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > > My point is that

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread John Levine
In article <6582089ce2ad3fb3fd074ada73672...@ausics.net>, Noel Butler wrote: >Agreed, if I publish a -all (which I do and have done for a very very >long time), I expect receivers doing SPF processing of my domains >messages, to honor that! Who the hell are they to assume they know my >network a

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Noel Butler
On 15/12/2017 10:29, st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: > December 15, 2017 1:12 PM, "Noel Butler" wrote: > > On 15/12/2017 09:27, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: > On 12/14/2017 03:28 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: My point is that -all > is policy, and most people ignore the policy portions of

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations (was: Re: Earthlink trouble with our PTR)

2017-12-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Bill Cole wrote: > On 14 Dec 2017, at 14:01 (-0500), Jim Popovitch wrote: > >> Aside from a few HUGE providers, those with very large and disparate >> networks/offices/topology > > > SPF isn't related to the complexity of a network, but control of users using >

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 12/14/2017 06:23 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: If you want to argue more loudly that you *do* understand what it means you could publish a matching DMARC record with p=discard. Doing that would tell recipient ISPs that either you've actually done appropriate analysis of your mail stream, you under

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 12/14/2017 05:29 PM, st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: given just how hard it is to ensure your SPF is followed in these days of mobile devices I don't think you should I'll argue that mobile devices should be connecting to MSAs that are under full control and configured to work within SPF (et

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Steve Atkins
> On Dec 14, 2017, at 4:06 PM, Noel Butler wrote: > > On 15/12/2017 09:27, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: > >> On 12/14/2017 03:28 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: >>> My point is that -all is policy, and most people ignore the policy portions >>> of SPF because it completely fails a lot of

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Laura Atkins
> On Dec 14, 2017, at 3:27 PM, Grant Taylor via mailop > wrote: > >> In practice, very few receivers implement SPF policy (except -all by itself >> for domains which don't send mail as a special case). > > What sort of data / experience do you have to back that statement up? (I've > not look

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Evert Mouw via mailop
It seems to raise some feelings... On 15-12-17 01:06, Noel Butler wrote: On 15/12/2017 09:27, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: On 12/14/2017 03:28 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: My point is that -all is policy, and most people ignore the policy portions of SPF because it completely fails

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations (was: Re: Earthlink trouble with our PTR)

2017-12-14 Thread Bill Cole
On 14 Dec 2017, at 14:01 (-0500), Jim Popovitch wrote: Aside from a few HUGE providers, those with very large and disparate networks/offices/topology SPF isn't related to the complexity of a network, but control of users using a domain name, which is a very different thing. -all means

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread steve
December 15, 2017 1:12 PM, "Noel Butler" wrote: On 15/12/2017 09:27, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: On 12/14/2017 03:28 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote:My point is that -all is policy, and most people ignore the policy portions of SPF because it completely fails a lot of forwarding c

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Noel Butler
On 15/12/2017 09:27, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: > On 12/14/2017 03:28 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > >> My point is that -all is policy, and most people ignore the policy portions >> of SPF because it completely fails a lot of forwarding cases. > > Every postmaster (or organization b

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations

2017-12-14 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 12/14/2017 03:28 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: My point is that -all is policy, and most people ignore the policy portions of SPF because it completely fails a lot of forwarding cases. Every postmaster (or organization behind them) has the prerogative to run their mail server(s) the wa

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations (was: Re: Earthlink trouble with our PTR)

2017-12-14 Thread Brandon Long via mailop
My point is that -all is policy, and most people ignore the policy portions of SPF because it completely fails a lot of forwarding cases. -all is asking receivers to reject mail that doesn't pass. ~all isn't policy. In practice, very few receivers implement SPF policy (except -all by itself for

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations (was: Re: Earthlink trouble with our PTR)

2017-12-14 Thread Al Iverson
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:09 AM Jim Popovitch wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Vladimir Dubrovin via mailop >> wrote: >> > >> > In fact, you should not use "-all" for your mail domain if you care >> > about delive

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations (was: Re: Earthlink trouble with our PTR)

2017-12-14 Thread Brandon Long via mailop
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:09 AM Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Vladimir Dubrovin via mailop > wrote: > > > > In fact, you should not use "-all" for your mail domain if you care > > about deliverability. > > FALSE! (Also, you should not randomly add CC recipients to th

Re: [mailop] SPF recommendations (was: Re: Earthlink trouble with our PTR)

2017-12-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Vladimir Dubrovin via mailop wrote: > > In fact, you should not use "-all" for your mail domain if you care > about deliverability. FALSE! (Also, you should not randomly add CC recipients to the same mailinglist that you are responding to) Aside from a few HUGE