Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter) | | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | | Date | Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:01:01 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 10:53 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Llu, 2006-06-12 am 10:18 +0200, ysgrifennodd Bernd Petrovitsch: > > No. SPF simply defines legitimate outgoing MTAs for a given domain. > > No it does not. If it did it would be almost a usable idea, but it fails > because the ISP generally controls the definition and the users are more
ACK. The domain owner controls it. So if you are not happy with your domain owner ..... [...] > ISPs *love* SPF because they can enforce policies that allow them to > charge even more to users who want to do anything interesting. The fact > many of them don't allow users to control their own domain SPF or get a > fixed SPF pointing at the ISP mailhost only is not entirely that they > haven't gotten around to fixing it either. > > The people who suffer from SPF are unfortunately the users. The people > its alleged to stop like it. The people it is alleged to help run > filters get richer and the users get screwed. [....] > SPF *would* be wonderful if the users controlled SPF handling and
Of course it would be much more useful (at least for the more knowing/interested folks) if the user can specify "legitimate" email (i.e. for the whole email address, not only th domain part). This can be done since years with PGP-signatures but almost no one is really using ist. And this requires understanding of PGP etc. - which is unfortunately not the case for everyone. So any simpler (but also reliable enough) scheme needs to be defined.
> someone fixed the forwarding flaws in it, but neither is the case today.
Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services
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