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Re: spf record



This one time, at band camp, Marek Podmaka said:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> Saturday, January 21, 2006, 23:09:28, Michael Loftis wrote:
> 
> ML> Have you even looked at AOLs SPF record?  notice the ?all at the end?  The
> ML> net result of that is that even with systems using SPF it's a 0 change, 
> ML> except for yet another dns lookup.  AOL knows that if they removed the ?all 
> ML> tag from the end they'd break a LOT of accounts using aol and sending to 
> ML> places implementing SPF.  So SPF doesn't really help AOL either.
> 
>   Interesting discussion about SPF... There are actually 2 things to
>   think about - one is implementing SPF on DNS for our domains and the
>   other is using SPF to limit "bad" incoming mail. In my opinion the
>   second one has only advantages. So I would like to ask what do you
>   recommend? Integrate it in postfix somehow? Or is it enough to turn
>   on SPF checking in SpamAssassin? How?

As mentioned, SPF breaks forwarded mail.  If you are absolutely
confident that your users will never receive legitmate mail through a
forwarder with a return address in a domain that does not have an spf
all record, feel free to reject it at smtp time.  If not, I would just
use SA checks.  To enable it in 3.1, you add or uncomment this bit in
/etc/spamassassin/init.pre:

loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF

HTH,
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