Rick Cooper wrote:
>>> The anti-SPF bandwagon is not ego driven but results driven. Than you
>>> for admitting that SPF in not a spam filtering solution. However it
>>> is also not a white listing solution because as many people have said
>>> here - spammers are the ones who are using SPF correctly. I can see
>>> some theoretical benefits that if you have a list of banks with SPF
>>> and you receive an email from an address that the bank lists then you
>>> can safely pass it. But I find that an easier way to do that is to
>>> use FCrDNS to do the same thing.
>>> On the down site SPF breaks email forwarding and it creates a false
>>> sense that people are doing something to fight spam or protect ham
>>> that is not supported by reality. SPF has received intellectual
>>> welfare because stuff that doesn't work tends to be culled out of
>>> spam assassin and other than backscatter most people here are telling
>>> the SPF supporters that it doesn't work. If SPF is becoming more
>>> popular it just means that more people are misled.
So then SRS Doesn't work for forwarding systems? I ask because I am
not a forwarding service and, as I only handle corporate mail
systems, do not give access to arbitrary forwarding to the mail
users so we do not have tons of (external) forwarding going on. Since SPF
and
SRS are like legs on the same body I will assume trying to walk with
one leg produces results similar to a forwarding service using SPF
without SRS. I personally would love comcast would list all of their
Valid outbound mail hosts and hard fail all others, same with aol, yahoo,
gmail, etc.
Seems to me if you are going to push email all over hell's half acre it
behooves you
To use any and all tools available to take responsibility for those mails
and SPF is
One of several tools that can do that, at least to some extent. If there
would have been
Some kind of total commitment to spam 10 years ago we would not be where we
are today and
Spamassassin (as it is) would not be quite so necessary.
(My apologies for the pathetic attempt at manually reformatting
the original html post)
SRS is even more broken than SPF. I allow users to white list or black
list based on the sender. If you rewrite the sender then you lose sender
based conditionals. SRS has no use other than to try to fix SPF which
has no use in the first place.
