SPF

[Mark Nienberg]

On 10 Aug 2004 at 13:52, Alex Neuman wrote:

> 1. Sendmail gets message, checks SPF. If SPF records say mail came
> from unauthorized server, drop the connection.

Sendmail doesn't just drop the conection, it returns an explanantion to the sender,
similar to the way it returns a "user unknown" or other error message.

> Is my understanding correct? Has anybody who's already implemented SPF
> at the MTA level using RPM-installed sendmail worked out something
> like this, and if so, where did you find info on it?

See this:
http://dev.spf.pobox.com/downloads.html

Mark

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