On 12 Feb 2019, at 21:56, Sebastian Nielsen via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote: > I disagree with this. So many organizations that have had softfail for
> several tens of years for no apparent reason. Gmail is no exception.
There’s no way in the SPF definition to indicate “apparent reason”.
You either have a hard fail, or a soft fail, or something else. You as a remote viewer cannot determine intent by the assertion of a domain’s SPF policy; that way madness lies.