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Re: SPF was Re: never use sorbs



On Thursday 27 July 2006 09:23, Michael Loftis wrote:
> --On July 27, 2006 1:32:06 PM +0100 James Stevenson <james@stev.org> wrote:
> > Many people have shouted lots at SBORBS so far on this list.
> > But at least they are trying actively to fix a problem that needs to be
> > fixed. Like a few other people are trying todo using dnsbl and spf and
> > some other methods.
>
> SPF is a dead horse.  It has many very serious problems, among which are
> mailing lists don't work,

I've never had problems with SPF and mailing lists.

> forwarders also don't work

They do if you implement SRS like you're supposed to if you're running a 
forwarder.

> and it doesn't protect against SPAM it just assists in helping to prove a 
> particular mail server is authorized to send mail for a particular domain. 

That's all it's designed to do.

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Paul Johnson
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