implementing SPF, which milter?

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Fri Mar 2 00:26:40 CET 2007


James Fagan spake the following on 3/1/2007 1:46 PM:
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Chris Yuzik wrote:
>>
>>> I understand that I need a milter to implement SPF (we use
> Sendmail).
>> Anyone
>>> have any recommendations?
>> smf-spf
>>
> 
> 
> I used this for a while. The reason I stopped using this milter is that
> SO many systems have invalid spf records and some other weird shared IP
> hosting 
> That made it more trouble than it was worth and this was nearly
> impossible to explain to our customers. Yes, there is a whitelist you
> can impliment, but I don't want to have to add <N> domains a day to this
> file.
> 
> I love the idea of spf, but I don't think there are enough correctly
> configured domains to warrant its use. I would continue to let
> spamassassin catch them for you. Of cource your experience may be
> different then mine.
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> 
> James 
And too many wildcarded SPF records out there!


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