Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:15:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter) |
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On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Bernd Petrovitsch schrieb am 2006-06-13: > >> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 23:05 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: >>> Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at> wrote: >> [...] >>>> Use secure authenticated mail submission on a known good MTA of said >>>> domain (and even the smallest ISP should be able to set that up). >>> >>> So what? What should me make me trust some domain that I've never before >> >> Well, so everyone can send email through an MTA (the email accounts >> "home MTA") covered in the SPF records. > > As (1) SPF this is demonstrably useless to establish trust and (2) the > argument that SPF doesn't provide the required blacklist information > hasn't been countered yet, it follows that > SPF just makes life harder for everyone without real benefits in return. > > SPF also prefers end-to-end mailings and falls short when relays are > used - but these are advocated by the SPF disciples. > > Can this SPF madness please be buried now? > > -- > Matthias Andree > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
SPF can be useful though, as a lot of Asian spam, for example says they are hotmail.com and they are not, SPF can reject much faster than sender address verification.
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