Re: misconception in SPF

Martijn Grooten <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
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> Does that imply that most, or even a relevant percentage of them [block SPF fails]?

No. I know some do, but I think it's a minority. (Among commercial spam-filters used mainly by corporations, that is. It could be that some of the larger ISPs block SPF fails outright, which would skew the picture.)

What I know for sure is that failing SPF doesn't mean an email is blocked by all spam-filters, because I found several counter-examples.

Inspired by this thread, I'm going to do a little more research into this and will try to see if there is any correlation between the SPF status of a spam message and the likelihood of it being blocked. I'll share the results on this list.

Martijn.

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