SPF

[Res]

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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> At 18:04 10/08/2004, you wrote:
>> One of the beauties of SPF as I 'sort of' understand it, is the DNS
>> record is checked first and only if it passes is the server opened to
>> receive that email (seems like MailScanner is the front line and that
>> would be the place to do this?). I'm not sure about exactly what happens
>> and when, with MailScanner, but I would like to know that the first
>> check made is at the DNS level and only then receive the email and put
>> it through whatever paces are in place, AV, AS and so forth. This would
>> be a huge reduction in server loads. Why do all that processing if only
>> then at the MTA level, does the email get rejected (server refuses to
>> download it)?
>>
>> Would this be the case with the current MailScanner? I am running RHEL
>> and sendmail. I will be adding the SPF sendmail patch at an appropriate
>> time.
>
> From your description above, you want to do your SPF checks at the MTA
> level, so use sendmail to do it, not MailScanner.

I guess this answers my question, no plans..
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