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Yes lots of sites have SPF, but what I've seen most sites set it to soft-fail mode. I think this is because SPF is still sometimes broken in practice. For exam
by samuellb 14y ago
Yes lots of sites have SPF, but what I've seen most sites set it to soft-fail mode.
I think this is because SPF is still sometimes broken in practice. For example, it can fail when there are misconfigured e-mail forwarding (e.g. mail aliases) at _other_ peoples servers[1]. Or with web forms that set the envelope sender to the "From" field in web page...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_forwarding#Forwarding_versus_remailing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_forwarding#Forwarding_ver...