On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:09 PM, David F. Skoll <d...@roaringpenguin.com>wrote:

> On 7 Oct 2011 00:28:49 -0000
> "John Levine" <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
>
> > >Does anyone blacklist based on SPF?
>
> > Nobody with any interest in delivering the mail that their users want.
> > The error rate is much, much too high.
>
> It depends.  I very confidently blacklist mail from "roaringpenguin.com"
> that fails to pass SPF.  That's my own domain, of course.
>
> With somewhat less (but still pretty high) confidence, I block mail
> from paypal.com and ebay.com if it fails SPF (including "softfail")
>
> SPF is most effective when used judiciously for specific domains.  It's
> pretty useless to make blanket SPF rules that cover unknown domains.
>
>
What do your rules look like for this scenario?

Julian

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