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SPF Design Frozen

Posted by timothy on from the are-we-acquainted dept.

Eric S. Smith writes "SPF, previously mentioned here, is a step closer to becoming a real, live RFC. We are encouraged to publish SPF records and thus to hasten the beginning of the end for annoying spam forgeries. SPF describes DNS TXT records that define the hosts authorized to send mail on behalf of users in your domain. Sites can then consult your SPF records and reject spam forged to look like it comes from you." (SPF stands for "Sender Permitted From.")

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  1. Adoption Rate by jhunsake · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know I'm going to put the SPF records in as soon as I get a chance, but these statistics aren't terribly optimistic so far:

    http://www.infinitepenguins.net/SPF/register.php

    This system serves to monitor the take-up of SPF. So far, 274 domains with SPF records are known.
    As yet, only a count of registered domains is displayed; more analysis tools will appear once the number of domains increases.

    Of these:
    84 parse cleanly
    0 parse with warnings
    173 parse with errors
    17 are yet to be checked by this system