Re: spf record

[Joe Emenaker <joe@emenaker.com>]

Andy Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:55:25PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
>   
> > Juha-Matti Tapio wrote:
> >     
> > > For example I would be really surprised to ever see actually
> > > effective SPF-records on debian.org.
> > >       
> > Why?
> >     
> Because there are large numbers of people with debian.org addresses
> who would have to use debian.org infrastructure to send mail with
> them, if they wanted them to pass strict SPF checks.
>   
I don't see this presenting a huge burden on the actual users, since 
mailers like Thunderbird let you specify different outgoing SMTP servers 
depending upon the "From:" identity you're using.

I don't see it presenting a huge burden on the servers, since mail from 
individual Debian maintainers/admins surely pales in comparison to the 
traffic on the mailing lists (that the servers are already handling)

I don't see it presenting a huge burden on the server administrators, 
since they can automate the process of adding/removing SMTP accounts as 
much as they've automated other tasks when someone becomes a maintainer 
(or otherwise gets a debian.org identity).

- Joe

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