Re: misconception in SPF

At 11:03 08-12-2012, Bill Cole wrote:
>If that sentence is not mis-worded, it is a declaration of ignorance 
>of important fundamental facts about how email works. RFC5321 is 
>required reading for anyone who wants

The sentence is likely incorrectly phrased.

>There are many strong arguments for mail systems to refrain from 
>attempting to require strict compliance to many details of the SMTP 
>and email format standards, but it is unhelpful to assume that 
>historically or even currently widespread forbearance of operational 
>enforcement of some facet of the standards grants any sort of 
>validity to non-compliant messages.

Yes.

Regards,
-sm