[Dovecot] spf record

[M. Fioretti]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 10:14:31 AM -0800, Marc Perkel (marc at perkel.com)
wrote:

> >Everyone has different opinions on the usefulness of SPF, but the
> >reality of it is, DomainKeys solves the entire problem.  SPF
> >doesn't.
> 
> I second that. I've wasted a lot of time with SPF and it's useless.

Maybe. Or maybe, more exactly, is useless to use, but it's necessary
to have. The reality today is that if you manage a mail server you
simply have to get your SPF right, no matter what you do or do not
with SPF of _incoming_ messages. What the message that starts the
thread means is that, if anybody with a @dovecot.org address (or any
other domain address with the same SPF status) sends a CV to some
dream company he'd like to work for, but the address he wrote is an
hotmail one (or is forwarded to an hotmail one) that company will
never see his CV and hire somebody else.

And there are too many people with an Hotmail account (and you not
knowing they have an hotmail account) which you or your users may NEED
to contact to ignore such cases.

Marco
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