Re: SPF and bouncing

At 11:45 06/04/2012  Friday, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Michael Deutschmann wrote:
>
>>Recently I've been pondering one simple question:
>>
>>"Is it okay, on the modern internet, to send a bounce message outside
>> of one's own bailiwick, when the original message had an SPF Pass
>> result?"
>
>One simple answer.  No.
>
>I really can't see why the thread has trundled on for so long.
>
>Incidentally I see more spammers (far more, both in absolute terms and
>as a proportion) than genuine mail senders using SPF, and the senders
>of genuine mail screw up their SPF records far more often and in more
>imaginative ways than the spammers do.  It almost drives me to despair.

+1
ips whitlisted against SPF fail are the most numerous whitlists any of our users have
(most are non srs forwarders, non-rewriting mailinglist exploders etc)