[Mimedefang] Deadline for SPF records

[Ben Kamen]

Cor Bosman wrote:
>>
>>That's just it - if your sales guy is at hotel with his laptop, he could 
>>use AUTH/STARTTLS and actually relay through his company's mail server. 
>>Thus the email from sales at acmewidgets.com would be delivered by 
>>mail.acmewidgets.com to where it needed to go... SPF would be valid. This 
>>no bounce at the destination.
> 
> 
> You try and tell that to thousands of customers. Who had their laptops
> set up in 1997 by a company that has long gone bankrupt. And will sue
> you if suddenly their email isnt working anymore :)
> 
> Welcome to the world of ISPs :)

I was speaking in the terms of a corporate user which should have an IT 
department. <Tongue in Cheek>

But seriously, it's so easy to set up StartTLS on the client side...

That's what an ISP's FAQ/Techsupport Page is for, right!?!

  -Ben

p.s. Seriously, STARTTLS/AUTH is really easy to set up on the client side.
It's either going to be conform or be blocked. (sigh) I hear you guys. Not gonna 
be pretty.