Debian Developers - Re: SPF or the like for *some* *subdomains* of .debian.org ?

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Re: SPF or the like for *some* *subdomains* of .debian.org ?

Mark Brown

2005-10-29, 5:52 pm

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:33:21PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sunday 23 October 2005 03:10, Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> wrote:

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> The only situation in which SPF is a problem is when someone wants to setup
> forwarding but has no control over anti-spam measures on the destination host
> or the forwarding mechanism. Is it common that users will have such a lack
> of control when using systems that implement SPF?

The major case I've run into is basic domain registration and hosting
systems that handle e-mail as a virtual table. I don't know that it is
*common* but I have ended up helping people out with this often enough
to notice it.

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