Re: Badly formatted SPF entries

Ian Eiloart <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:03:06 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 21 Aug 2012, at 05:40, Wayne Doust <[email protected]> wrote:

> A daily task for me is checking the SPF logs for PERMERRORs and then emailing the domain owner with my findings. Sometimes they fix things, usually they don’t. I seem to see a recurring theme:
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> “v=spf1” “a” “mx” “?all”

That's the exact content, including the quotes?

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> Which of course fails.
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> My questions is: Why is this mistake so common? It accounts for over 50% of the PermErrors I see. If some wizard is producing this garbage, can the writer of that wizard be informed?
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