[Mimedefang] Deadline for SPF records

[WBrown at e1b.org]

mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 08/05/2004 12:52:10 
PM:

> But when are the big guys yahoo|earthlink|hotmail|msn going to implement 
SPF
> entries for their mail servers?

Good point.  Of all of the above, only AOL has any TXT records in DNS.

aol.com text = "v=spf1 ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24 
ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24 
ip4:64.12.136.0/23 ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all"

Microsoft.com does not have any either.

Adelphia.net (cable company) does "v=spf1 mx ip4:68.168.78.0/24 -all"

It's really appalling that M$ is talking about requiring it, but not 
publishing it.  I'm glad the big players are starting to talk about it, 
and until they require it, it will never be adopted, but I am disappointed 
that M$ is trying to define a standard before it's cleared the standards 
process.

I talked to our DNS guy and he'll create the SPF records, but not until it 
is more widely implemented and that organizations like InfraGuard are 
talking about it.