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I'm sorry this page needs to exist, it's partly my fault. I created the first "large scale" SPF record (for eBay and PayPal), and agreed that this was the best
by jedberg 2mo ago
I'm sorry this page needs to exist, it's partly my fault. I created the first "large scale" SPF record (for eBay and PayPal), and agreed that this was the best way to do it. I guess the people after me agreed too, because 20 years later it's still pretty much the same shape as when I made it!
But I don't have any regrets, the format was pretty straightforward and offered a lot of flexibility. The biggest issue was the parsing libraries handling all of the "include" statements correctly.
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- trollbridge 2mo agoEh, SPF is one of the few things I don't hate about modern e-mail. Pretty easy to figure out / tweak / parse. I like dealing with it way more than MTA-STS.
- jcgl 2mo agoMTA-STS really is a drag. Baking in dependencies on a web server and web PKI is a true drag. Such web infrastructure has different operational profiles/modes of resilience that it’s a real impedance mismatch for those who can’t or don’t want to manage a highly-available web server.