Arthur S. Alexion on 22 Mar 2004 21:14:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Re: SPF


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On Sunday 21 March 2004 05:43 pm, Jeff McAdams wrote:
> > Are you saying SPF would reject any alexion.com mail as forged since it
> > is coming from another domain's smtp server?
>
> If alexion.com had SPF records that didn't include sprintpcs.com's smtp
> servers and netreach.net's smtp servers and the receiving mail servers
> honored SPF, yes (at least as I understand SPF, someone please correct
> me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am).
>
>
> Of course, since it looks like alexion.com is your own personal domain,
> then you could put whatever records in for it that you wanted, allowing
> mail from whichever mailservers that you might use, so that's probably
> not a big deal for you, but not all that many people use personal
> domains like that.

But the records that I would add would only affect the servers I controlled.  
Does that mean that others using SPF would see alexion.com (and other 
legitimate personal domains that are forwarded to someone else's POP server) 
would detect the mail as forged?

Or am I misunderstanding how this works?
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Art Alexion
Arthur S. Alexion LLC
arthur [at] alexion [dot] com
aim: aalexion
sms: 2679725536 [at] messaging [dot] sprintpcs [dot] com

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