[119852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Thu Dec 3 01:52:03 2009
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:51:38 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20091203064258.22870.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
John Levine wrote:
>> I guess I've never really seen the point of publishing a SPF record if
>> it ends in ~all. What are people supposed to do with that info?
>
> Get your mail delivered to Hotmail, the last significant outpost of
> SPF/Sender-ID. Other than that, I agree it's useless.
>
> I also agree that any domain with live users (as opposed to mail
> cannons sending ads or transaction confirmations) is likely to
> experience pain with -all from all the overenthusiastic little MTAs
> whose managers imagine that "stopping forgery" will lessen their spam
> load rather than losing mail from roaming users.
>
In all fairness, the roaming users problem isn't a problem when one uses
smtp auth and a constant submission point.
~Seth
