On 7/15/23 10:04 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I'd love to do this, but see below. I get TONS of warnings every
time I send email to lists (even this list) that make me hesitant to
do hard fails.
I understand and appreciate what you're describing.
I do, as well, but mailing lists outside of my sphere of influence.
I can't very well dictate to mailing list admins that they change the
way they do things. Even the earlier email I sent to this list
generated a bunch of warning messages. One of many:
You can't dictate. But you can ask.
I'd almost guarantee that you wouldn't be the first bringing this to
their attention.
It's not so much mailing list operators I'm worried about. It's
that, when my email goes through a listserv mailing list, if I define
hard failures, I am worried that my email isn't going to get to list
members.
Yes, that is a risk.
But ...
That's not the mailing list admin, it's the admins of the
list members' mail servers.
... if you stop and think about it, SPF is doing exactly what it's
designed to do. The servers that receive messages from the list are
detecting your domain in the 5322.MailFrom, identifying that the sending
IP isn't authorized, and acting accordingly.
I'd argue that's exactly what is supposed to happen.
So who's doing something wrong? The receiving mail server who's acting
according to your published wishes or the server that is sending
contrary to your published wishes?
If I'm not understanding something, please feel free to clarify.
Does that help clarify (my opinion)?
Grant. . . .
