Re: Re: [spf-help] SRS for Exim

wayne <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.srs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In <[email protected]> Tony Finch <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
>
>> | > It would be good to add a mechanism to SPF that allows a domain to state
>> | > that it signs its sender addresses
>> |
>> | This is an excellent idea that Meng should seriously consider.
>>
>> i would be happy to do that.  how about a modifier like srs=decline or
>> would ses=always be more appropriate?
>
> I would have thought that it should be a mechanism rather than a modifier,
> though I'm a bit murky on where the boundary between them falls.  For
> example why is include a mechanism and redirect a modifier?  Perhaps some
> more explanatory text could be added to the specification.

BTFOOM why redirect is a modifier instead of a mechanism like
include.  They both change the SPF result.  Once upon a time, the
"all" mechanism was a modifier too.



> A slight problem is that this would make SPF dependent on another
> specification that hasn't been written yet...

Well, if it is a modifier, it doesn't change the SPF result.  Email
receivers are free to recognize the ses=always modifier if they want
and take the correct action.

-wayne
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