Re: [mailop] Blocking emails from domains without SPF records

2016-08-19 Thread Dave Crocker
An SPF pass is a reasonably strong signal that the mail did come from the purported source. An SPF fail doesn't tell you much. The basic rule is that without any established track record, any 'directive' from a sender, about how a receiver should handle received mail, is strongly like to h

Re: [mailop] Blocking emails from domains without SPF records

2016-08-19 Thread John Levine
In article <27d11417-6cdf-62cf-3d97-7a4e5581b...@blakjak.net> you write: >Perhaps i've missed something, but isn't the whole point of SPF that if >a _sender domain_ publishes a -all SPF record, that any platform using >SPF is _supposed to reject email that doesn't pass_ ? Ten years ago there wer