Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter)

Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-06-12T08:18:12Z

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 22:17 -0700, jdow wrote:
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> that matter. It simply says, "When I went and looked at the guy's claimed
> mail source the spf record said he was who he said he was." Who vouches

No. SPF simply defines legitimate outgoing MTAs for a given domain.
Within a domain, it is up to the postmaster to allow/disallow address
forgery and for the rest of a world (to tell where legitimate email of
his domain comes from), the postmaster defines SPF records.

Bernd
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