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Re: SPF or the like for *some* *subdomains* of .debian.org ?



On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:33:21PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sunday 23 October 2005 03:10, Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> wrote:

> > ...and hope that nobody wants forward e-mail from those domains using a
> > virtual table or equivalent to somewhere doing SPF checks.

> The only situation in which SPF is a problem is when someone wants to setup 
> forwarding but has no control over anti-spam measures on the destination host 
> or the forwarding mechanism.  Is it common that users will have such a lack 
> of control when using systems that implement SPF?

The major case I've run into is basic domain registration and hosting
systems that handle e-mail as a virtual table.  I don't know that it is
*common* but I have ended up helping people out with this often enough
to notice it.

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