[Asrg] SPF and other bad ideas

Ian Eiloart iane at sussex.ac.uk
Tue Jan 20 04:00:27 PST 2009



--On 19 January 2009 15:48:20 -0500 Dotzero <dotzero at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> If an enduser wants the flexibility to send from Kiosks or through
> other MTAs and their company or mail provider allows this by policy
> then the use of strong SPF assertions is likely inappropriate. My
> response to you is the old saw about the person who goes tot he doctor
> about a pain.... "Doctor, it hurts when I do that" ...... and the
> Doctor says..... "Don't do that".

In any case, you can use ~all. All I want to do is be able to whitelist 
email that's being sent by the usual methods from trusted sources. There's 
no reason that a Kiosk shouldn't be set up to use a webmail client.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
x3148


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