Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change

"Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@gathman.org> Wed, 10 February 2016 19:25 UTC

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From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@gathman.org>
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Subject: Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change
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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Roy A. Gilmore wrote:

> While I'm aware that there are "tens of thousands of mail systems all
> over the world", there are only a few SMTP implementations that are run
> on all those systems. You only have to get the SMTP developers on board.
> This is a trivial change (maybe not a one-liner, but, close), would

Changing the SPD implementation is trivial.  I've done it, a long
time ago.  I voted to keep type99 for the production RFC.  Actually
working efficiently with braindead DNS servers is *not* trivial.
I've tried to do it, and gave up.  I still have TYPE99 code
in my SPF implementation, and I periodically turn it on to see
if a certain huge DNS server provider is still screwing up . . .