Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

[Marc Perkel]

Gino Cerullo wrote: On 26-Jul-06, at 4:00 AM, Rolf Kraeuchi wrote: Gino Cerullo schrieb: [...] Hey, I never claimed checking and rejecting before DATA to be ready for 'large scale' deployments. ;-) But, I have to say that in the six months that I've been doing it I've never had a false positive. <knocks on wood> Also, I've been publishing an SPF record for over two years and again, I've never had a problem with mail being rejected, misdirected or lost. The truth is that there is no reason for any domain not to be able to publish SPF records that end in at least a SOFTFAIL (~all). [...] Well, maybe there is. Doesn't SA score SOFTFAIL with more than 1 point? regards, rolf No, the default scores are as follows. SOFT_FAIL    0.5 FAIL     0.9 I suspect the low scores represent a high amount of false positives which is why I say SPF is broken.