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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:53:50 +1000
From: Noel Butler
To: Craig Small
Cc: Oz-Isp
Message-Id: <1118638430.15781.4.camel@roswell.ausics.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050612230916.GA4963@enc.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] Helo Pacific
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On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 09:09, Craig Small wrote:

> No, it needs to be enabled.  I know of no MTA that has this feature
> turned on by default.


>=20
> There are some kinks in the system, for example
>   - Ebay often sends email out as "you" which tangles SPF up
>   - I don't quite understand complex setups. Internode's entry ends in
>         ~all which is not a hard failure, what happens with my entry as I=20
>         include them?
>   - People implement it wrong, I saw someone install SPF on their
>         internal server. Obviously my SPF records do not match their
>         external mail relays IP address, so they blocked email
>         My server -> Their external server -> Their internal server
>=20

This is the sort of reason why sendmail decided not to offer an spf=20
config option...there are of course milters out there is ones game
enough





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Regards,
Noel Butler
System Administrator
Internet Services
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