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http://www.openspf.org back in business

Julian Mehnle — 2008-09-25T22:20:12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, http://www.openspf.org is back in business! The server has been fixed and Stuart D. Gathman and I have pulled current backups. I am also going to look into automating the backup pulling process. Many thanks to Alan Maitland for his help in getting the server back up! Julian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjcDpwACgkQwL7PKlBZWjvpMwCbBahPaKD41OeahWnsCcCsXueD SSQAoIRdHRU/TQ4usi6FtQ6rpYaBec0q =bBeV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

SPF Mail Summary Report

2008-09-21T05:00:02

iMail News Gateway Server v3.1 (c) Copyright 1996-2005 Santronics Software, Inc. Mail Forum Statistics Date Range : 14 Sep 2008 - 17 Sep 2008 Report Date: 21 Sep 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Summary: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Forums : 2 Total Messages : 11 Total Participants : 9 Total Vendor Postings : 0 Total Mail/No Replies : 6 (54%) 6+ Days Old : 6 4+ Days Old: 0 2+ Days Old : 0 1 Day Old : 0 Busiest Posting Hour : 1am (6 msgs) Busiest Posting Day : Sunday (6 msgs) +-[ Hourly Posting Pattern ]----------------------+ | * | | * | | * | | *

Still down and unreachable... www.openspf.org

Boyd Lynn Gerber — 2008-09-16T13:11:43

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, www.openspf.org is still down and not responding. Does anyone have access to the machine? We really need to get this fixed. I keep getting responses from people I refer to the site about not being able to get the information. Thanks, - -- Boyd Gerber zenez.com> ZENEZ1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjPsJkACgkQVtBjDid73eaaGwCeIEF1vuqF4D9nXS+GCwT137Lm +sUAn0H9CDYkZxfcYeDJorL/zmWmHj+J =DQxZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

SPF Mail Summary Report

2008-09-14T05:00:03

iMail News Gateway Server v3.1 (c) Copyright 1996-2005 Santronics Software, Inc. Mail Forum Statistics Date Range : 07 Sep 2008 - 13 Sep 2008 Report Date: 14 Sep 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Summary: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Forums : 2 Total Messages : 15 Total Participants : 8 Total Vendor Postings : 0 Total Mail/No Replies : 1 (6%) 6+ Days Old : 0 4+ Days Old: 0 2+ Days Old : 0 1 Day Old : 1 Busiest Posting Hour : 7am (3 msgs) Busiest Posting Day : Sunday (5 msgs) +-[ Hourly Posting Pattern ]----------------------+ | * | | * | | * | | *

www.openspf.org

Boyd Lynn Gerber — 2008-09-12T16:58:42

I can not access www.openspf.org. It started late yesterday. -- Boyd Gerber zenez.com> ZENEZ1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047

New tool(s)

Frank Ellermann — 2008-09-07T09:31:37

Hi, for info, Dave B moved his "dig" form to a new server, and added an SPF check page while at it, check it out: Frank

Sender-id records

Stuart D. Gathman — 2008-09-05T19:29:33

I am considering checking for spf2.0/mfrom records when there is no v=spf1 record. Does anyone have stats on whether any of these actually exist? (I do not plan to check PRA given patent issues and general uselessness of doing so.) If both v=spf1 and spf2.0/mfrom records exist, then I will give the v=spf1 record precedence. I don't think this is addressed in either spec.

SPF Mail Summary Report

2008-08-24T05:00:03

iMail News Gateway Server v3.1 (c) Copyright 1996-2005 Santronics Software, Inc. Mail Forum Statistics Date Range : 17 Aug 2008 - 21 Aug 2008 Report Date: 24 Aug 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Summary: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Forums : 2 Total Messages : 12 Total Participants : 6 Total Vendor Postings : 0 Total Mail/No Replies : 4 (33%) 6+ Days Old : 3 4+ Days Old: 0 2+ Days Old : 1 1 Day Old : 0 Busiest Posting Hour : 1am (3 msgs) Busiest Posting Day : Sunday (6 msgs) +-[ Hourly Posting Pattern ]----------------------+ | * | | * | | * | | *

SPF Mail Summary Report

2008-08-17T05:00:02

iMail News Gateway Server v3.1 (c) Copyright 1996-2005 Santronics Software, Inc. Mail Forum Statistics Date Range : 10 Aug 2008 - 16 Aug 2008 Report Date: 17 Aug 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Summary: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Forums : 2 Total Messages : 18 Total Participants : 8 Total Vendor Postings : 0 Total Mail/No Replies : 2 (11%) 6+ Days Old : 2 4+ Days Old: 0 2+ Days Old : 0 1 Day Old : 0 Busiest Posting Hour : 1am (2 msgs) Busiest Posting Day : Tuesday (5 msgs) +-[ Hourly Posting Pattern ]----------------------+ | * * * * * * | | * * * * * * | | * * * * * * | | * * * * *

SPF Mail Summary Report

2008-08-10T05:00:03

iMail News Gateway Server v3.1 (c) Copyright 1996-2005 Santronics Software, Inc. Mail Forum Statistics Date Range : 03 Aug 2008 - 07 Aug 2008 Report Date: 10 Aug 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Summary: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Forums : 2 Total Messages : 18 Total Participants : 15 Total Vendor Postings : 0 Total Mail/No Replies : 6 (33%) 6+ Days Old : 4 4+ Days Old: 1 2+ Days Old : 1 1 Day Old : 0 Busiest Posting Hour : 1am (6 msgs) Busiest Posting Day : Sunday (5 msgs) +-[ Hourly Posting Pattern ]----------------------+ | * | | * | | * | | *

SPF Mail Summary Report

2008-08-03T05:00:02

iMail News Gateway Server v3.1 (c) Copyright 1996-2005 Santronics Software, Inc. Mail Forum Statistics Date Range : 27 Jul 2008 - 02 Aug 2008 Report Date: 03 Aug 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Summary: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Forums : 2 Total Messages : 51 Total Participants : 19 Total Vendor Postings : 0 Total Mail/No Replies : 4 (7%) 6+ Days Old : 2 4+ Days Old: 0 2+ Days Old : 1 1 Day Old : 1 Busiest Posting Hour : 10am (7 msgs) Busiest Posting Day : Thursday (23 msgs) +-[ Hourly Posting Pattern ]----------------------+ | * | | * | | * * * | | * * *

Email messages that are extremely un helpful...

Boyd Lynn Gerber — 2008-07-31T16:01:59

Hello, Today I received and email telling me I need SPF records. But with no information. I sent an email back requesting headers but nothing came back. This is worse than having no SPF. It really is spamming me. Below is the email. I have SPF records that expect failures. What are they talking about. One area, that I think SPF missed was CNAME. I have tons of host/domain pairs with CNAME. I really dislike having to change every CNAME into an A record. -- Boyd Gerber zenez.com> ZENEZ1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 ---------------------Bogus-SPF-Email---------------------------------- From spfrequired< at >cyberglobe.net Thu Jul 31 02:08:00 2008 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:08:31 -0400 From: spfrequired< at >cyberglobe.net To: gerberb< at >zenez.com Subject: URGENT: Your DNS is missing a SPF record. Dear Domain Owner, Please note that your domain name is currently missing a SPF record to notify other mail servers that you only allow mail delivery from your specified mail servers

SPF Mail Summary Report

2008-07-27T05:00:02

iMail News Gateway Server v3.1 (c) Copyright 1996-2005 Santronics Software, Inc. Mail Forum Statistics Date Range : 20 Jul 2008 - 26 Jul 2008 Report Date: 27 Jul 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Summary: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Forums : 2 Total Messages : 39 Total Participants : 14 Total Vendor Postings : 0 Total Mail/No Replies : 4 (10%) 6+ Days Old : 3 4+ Days Old: 1 2+ Days Old : 0 1 Day Old : 0 Busiest Posting Hour : 3pm (5 msgs) Busiest Posting Day : Wednesday (15 msgs) +-[ Hourly Posting Pattern ]----------------------+ | * | | * | | * * * | | * * *

99.95% of all SPF records use no macros

Frank Ellermann — 2008-07-23T17:24:41

Hi, is quite fascinating, it says that over 99.95% of about 2,500,000 evaluated SPF records use no macros at all. Of course this can't tell us how much FAIL-protected mails desperately need macros. Frank

SPF Mail Summary Report

2008-07-20T05:00:01

iMail News Gateway Server v3.1 (c) Copyright 1996-2005 Santronics Software, Inc. Mail Forum Statistics Date Range : 14 Jul 2008 - 19 Jul 2008 Report Date: 20 Jul 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Summary: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Forums : 2 Total Messages : 48 Total Participants : 18 Total Vendor Postings : 0 Total Mail/No Replies : 5 (10%) 6+ Days Old : 0 4+ Days Old: 3 2+ Days Old : 1 1 Day Old : 1 Busiest Posting Hour : 11am (8 msgs) Busiest Posting Day : Thursday (18 msgs) +-[ Hourly Posting Pattern ]----------------------+ | * * | | * * | | * * | | * *

SPF EAI -01

Frank Ellermann — 2008-07-14T19:18:56

Hi, a new draft should be soon available at the usual places including With fresh ideas for obscure corner cases, what do existing SPF implementations with quoted pairs (backslashes) ? Frank

Help of SPF Implementations on exim

SODATONOU Dodji Comlan Samuel — 2008-07-14T18:59:21

Hello I am new to SPF and i install exim with SPF supports. After the install i add the following line in the rcpt acl of my exim configuration file deny message = $sender_host_address is not allowed to send mail from $sender_address_domain log_message = SPF check failded spf = fail This configuration can permit to test a fail forgery attemps from domains wich publish SPF records.(example aol.com) A furgery aol mail from host 41.207.177.17 to my server give this error "SPF result is unknown (permanent error) (7)" **** SMTP testing session as if from host 41.207.177.17 **** but without any ident (RFC 1413) callback. **** This is not for real! mail >>> gethostbyname looked up these IP addresses: from>>> gethostbyname looked up these IP addresses: :>>> gethostbyname looked up these IP addresses: 220 annuaire.trstech.net ESMTP Exim 4.68 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:09:20 +0000 mail from: sam< at >aol.com 501 mail from: sam< at >aol.com: missing or malformed local part (expected word or "<") quit 221 annuaire.tr

FYI: 2821bis examples

Frank Ellermann — 2008-07-08T02:23:04

Hi, for info, IIRC some folks here have strong preferences wrt example addresses in RFCs and elsewhere. On the SMTP list Tony asked: | John has said to me that he's always been willing to | change the non-example domain names to 2606 example | domain names. | Now that the appeal is done and out of the way, do people | prefer | 1) none of the domain names be changed? | 2) all domain names be changed, except Jon Postel's isi.edu | and usc.edu references | 3) all domain names be changed | I would like to get a quick consensus call for this question. | Please respond by Thursday, July 10. .........^^^^^^^ That is "respond to his original message", *NOT* to this info. Frank

SPF Mail Summary Report

2008-07-06T05:00:01

iMail News Gateway Server v3.1 (c) Copyright 1996-2005 Santronics Software, Inc. Mail Forum Statistics Date Range : 24 Jun 2008 - 30 Jun 2008 Report Date: 06 Jul 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Summary: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Forums : 2 Total Messages : 11 Total Participants : 10 Total Vendor Postings : 0 Total Mail/No Replies : 4 (36%) 6+ Days Old : 4 4+ Days Old: 0 2+ Days Old : 0 1 Day Old : 0 Busiest Posting Hour : 9am (3 msgs) Busiest Posting Day : Tuesday (6 msgs) +-[ Hourly Posting Pattern ]----------------------+ | * * | | * * | | * * | | * *

SPF Mail Summary Report

2008-06-24T13:49:46

iMail News Gateway Server v3.1 (c) Copyright 1996-2005 Santronics Software, Inc. Mail Forum Statistics Date Range : 15 Jun 2008 - 24 Jun 2008 Report Date: 24 Jun 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Summary: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Forums : 2 Total Messages : 53 Total Participants : 19 Total Vendor Postings : 0 Total Mail/No Replies : 7 (13%) 6+ Days Old : 3 4+ Days Old: 3 2+ Days Old : 1 1 Day Old : 0 Busiest Posting Hour : 6pm (8 msgs) Busiest Posting Day : Monday (21 msgs) +-[ Hourly Posting Pattern ]----------------------+ | * | | * | | * | |

For info, a new version of

Frank Ellermann — 2008-06-20T08:34:02

Posted on the rfc.interest list: I try to get the IDNAbis folks to finally nail this beast. After "at least one dot" killed by 2821bis - currently blocked by an appealed DISCUSS [1} - the update [2] is the second point in RFC 3696 that didn't survive the IETF process. Fortunately it is also the last point relevant for SPF, we can simply pull the RFC 3696 reference in a future 4408bis. Still unclear is the minimal length of a , SPF picked one, USEFOR picked two. SPF got an RFC number, the approved USEFOR RFC on standards track is blocked by a missing normative reference, SNAFU. Frank