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Author Re: SPF
Adam Majer

2004-07-24, 2:48 am

Erik Aronesty wrote:

>Isaac To <iketo2@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<2kYrZ-u1-3@gated-at.bofh.it>...
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>That pdf didn't work for me. I read this instead.
>http://spf.pobox.com/srspng.html
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>I was thinking that a spammer could creates an envelope address with
>"SRS0+hash=timestamp=aol.com=bob@throwawaydomain.com" and a From:
>bob@aol.com with valid SPF info in throwawaydomain.com.
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Indeed. SRS breaks SPF. SPF seems to be good only for direct mailing
domains. It essentially breaks all lists.

I guess the only way to allow forwarding is for the MTA to sign each
outgoing message and then to publish the public key in the DNS. I don't
see another way around it.

- Adam

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