On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:53:42 +0000
David Jones <djo...@ena.com> wrote:

> I think they publish their SPF like this because they have no good
> list of outbound mail servers themselves so they take the lazy
> approach.

Yahoo invented (or was one of the main inventors) of DKIM, so it could
also be a little bit of NIH syndrome.  And maybe they published nonsensical
SPF records to placate badly-designed receiving systems that penalize
domains with no SPF whatsoever.

> Postfix is pretty flexible so maybe there is a way to allow this
> by the PTR when the FCrDNS matches.

IMO, the SPF spec should have specified that a PTR mechanism MUST be
ignored nuless FCrDNS matches.  (Maybe it does... too lazy to look it
up. :))

Regards,

Dianne.

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