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Re: [spfbis] Clarity on location of SPF records

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Tue, 16 September 2014 13:03 UTC

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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 06:01:55 -0700
To: Danie de Jager <danie.dejager@za.striata.com>, spfbis@ietf.org
From: S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com>
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Subject: Re: [spfbis] Clarity on location of SPF records
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Hi Danie,
At 04:27 16-09-2014, Danie de Jager wrote:
>The RFC uses:
>    <domain> - the domain portion of the "MAIL FROM" or "HELO" identity.
>
>Does <domain> always equal only to a fully qualified domain name?

<domain> is what you get in the "MAIL FROM" or "HELO".  It may not be 
a fully qualified domain name as it is input data.

>I'm investigating SPF records of some institutions that I believe 
>are wrong.  All their SPF records are included only in their top domain.

That would be what these institutions are using in the "MAIL FROM" 
when they send mail.  They would like the receiver to accept that 
message if it came from a host which they authorized.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

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