Re: SPF isn't going to change, was Deprecating SPF

Hadriel Kaplan <[email protected]>
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On Aug 23, 2013, at 9:40 PM, David Conrad <[email protected]> wrote:

> As far as I can tell, the issue isn't whether the SPF RR is being used (it appears to be, albeit at a tiny percentage relative to TXT currently), rather it's whether or not a handful of major mail service providers will use SPF RRs in the future if the IETF were to document a fix to the broken transition strategy in 4408. 

[not to counter your statement above, but rather to pile on...]

I'm just a simple email user and not involved in the email world, but ISTM it's not just what major mail service providers use, but major mail servers/MTAs as well - for example those used by the corporate world.  MS Exchange, for example, and any "front-end" spam-filtering-thingies put between it and the Internet.  And other corporate-market-focused server vendors.  No?  

My employer's email server products, for example, appear to only do type-16 TXT SPF queries. (though I could easily be wrong on that - it's just what I see in the publicly-accessible user docs)  Likewise that's what it appears to be for MS Exchange, of various versions, though again I could be wrong.

-hadriel
disclaimer: this email does not represent Oracle in any way, I am merely speaking as an individual.  Oracle products may well do type-99 checking already today, or in the near-future, for all I know.

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