Autor: Ian Eiloart Datum: To: Chris Lightfoot CC: David Saez Padros, exim users Betreff: Re: [exim] UCEPROTECT Blacklists and why callouts are abusive
--On 18 October 2006 12:21:43 +0100 Chris Lightfoot <chris@???>
wrote:
>
>> Except in violation of their terms of use. Presumably that means that
>> you can't use it in violation of their SPF policy.
>
> it's not obvious to me that a contract written between me
> and an ISP could prevent me from sending email that
> doesn't go through their network at all.
Well, the contract could forbid you but that might not prevent you - that's
what SPF is for. I don't know whether AOL's contract does forbid you. Even
if it doesn't explicitly forbid you, publication of SPF records implies a
policy, and your contract may require you to abide by that implied policy.
In practice, publication of SPF records will prevent you from reaching some
recipients when you violate the SPF policy. Whether AOL can be held
accountable for that, I don't know, after all AOL are only publishing
advice to the recipient's postmaster.
> Has this
> principle been tested?
>
> (For reference, a quick look at AOL UK's site doesn't
> suggest that they apply such a condition to their
> service.)
