[Mimedefang] Deadline for SPF records
Ben Kamen
bkamen at benjammin.net
Fri Aug 6 11:27:55 EDT 2004
I was speaking more on the port 25 thing than the SPF. Providers so railroad
most of the users into their servers... ignorance *IS* bliss.
But you're right on the SPF part...
WBrown at e1b.org wrote:
> mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 08/06/2004 10:46:17
> AM:
>
>
>>Much pain for the technical types... I think the rest of the world
>>will hardly notice.
>
>
> You, sir, are an optimist! <g>
>
> I suspect end users will notice that their mail is getting rejected. And
> that will lead to much pain for the technical types who have to explain
> why it isn't going through and try to fix it. And your local users will
> whine to you that you are blocking their email from Aunt Sally.
>
> These probablity of these events happening increase the faster M$ and
> others push to implement such systems. It will be exacerbated by a lack
> of publicity, such as M$'s apparent deadline of October 1.
>
> These steps need to be taken, but it needs to be a ratified standard and
> well publicized.
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