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Re: [spfbis] Question about SPF checks based on RFC 7208

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Fri, 24 June 2016 18:14 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:12:30 -0700
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From: S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com>
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Subject: Re: [spfbis] Question about SPF checks based on RFC 7208
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Hi Frank,
At 10:19 23-06-2016, Frank Bulk wrote:
>I'm looping back into the conversation again because we've had two different
>ag-business customers get bitten by this in the last two days, trying to
>send emails (via IPv6) to the USDA who apparently uses an SPF implementation
>that checks for the MX record's AAAAs and fails on too many void lookups.
>The workaround, in both cases, has been for us to move 'mx' to end of the
>ag-business' SPF record.

I'll look into this in the next few weeks.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

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