I have a couple questions about SPF and its usage in SpamAssassin.

1) Would SPF obselete the FORGED_*_RCVD rules?
2) How does SPF deal with senders who are not forwarding a message, but are sending on 
behalf of a user?
We have seen the latter case often with resume sites.  e.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED] submits 
his resume to HotJobs and responds to a job posting.  An email is sent from 
whatever.hotjobs.com, but the MAIL FROM is [EMAIL PROTECTED]  We've gotten a lot of 
false positives this way if the email address is Yahoo, AOL, or one of the others for 
which SpamAssassin has FORGED rules.  

How would SPF address this kind of message?  It's my understanding that a DNS query 
would be sent to yahoo.com, which would respond with its outgoing SMTP IP addresses - 
not containing HotJobs' IP - and cause the message to be rejected.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Malte
S. Stretz
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Justin Mason
Subject: [SAtalk] Re: SPF Support in SA?


On Saturday 03 January 2004 21:39 CET Justin Mason wrote:
> Bill Landry writes:
> > That's awesome, looking forward to the SA 2.70 release!  And since I
> > seem to be on a roll here, what about Web-o-Trust support
> > (www.web-o-trust.org) in SA?
>
> Well, I'm in the WoT already, so I do like it ;)   But I'll wait
> and see a little longer first.   It depends on the results, really.

So you don't like the code I'm currently working on? Ohhh... ;-)

Cheers,
Malte

P.S.: Justin, now that you're back, could you please include 
http://msquadrat.de/web-o-trust.yaml in your file? :)

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