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

Tony Finch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.srs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, wayne wrote:
>
> >> 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.
> >
> > So for general understanding, what determines whether something should be a
> > mechanism or a modifier?
>
> Now, the "all" mechanism is allowed to appear more than once because
> it is a mechanism, but anything after the first all mechanism doesn't
> do anything.

This would also be true for redirect if that were a mechanism.

> Mechanisms can have prefixes, modifiers can't.

Perhaps this is the key. What would the prefix on a redirect mean?
And on an SES check?

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