Re: [exim] SPF Question

OK - I had thought this little bit of restriction would work but if that
doesn't work then SPF is basically useless then? I had thought it could
at least get rid of SOME spam reliable for those who used -all but it
appears that even that is not reliable.

So - am I missing something here or is SPF broken and if so - why are we
interested in it?

David Woodhouse wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 13:54 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>Lets say that a person has an email address joe@??? and that
>>email forwards to an account on my server joe@???. Will there be
>>any errors relating to domain1.com being allowed to forward the message
>>to domain2.com if the SPF record is restrictive?
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>Yes, there will be errors.
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>>Is SFP smart enough to look at all the received lines and figure it out?
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>No, SPF is fundamentally broken in that respect -- it would have you
>throw away the mail you're asking about, if the original sender was
>silly enough to publish an SPF record ending in '-all'.
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