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Revision 3 . . 2008-03-18 14:11 (UTC) by Frank Ellermann [Replaced old remark who considers to support SPF by links to statistics etc.]
Revision 2 . . 2008-03-18 13:55 (UTC) by Frank Ellermann [SPF recommendation by the MAAWG]
Revision 1 . . 2006-03-11 19:06 (UTC) by Scott Kitterman
  
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People are willing to put up with a lot more change and pain.

People are willing to put up with a lot more change and pain.

People who have shown interest in supporting SPF include Qualcomm (makers of Eudora), Tim O'Reilly (publisher of geek books), SpamAssassin, ActiveState (makers of PureMessage), MailArmory, Declude JunkMail, and others.

The [[http://www.maawg.org/about/MAAWG_Sender_BCP MAAWG Sender BCP]] published by the <em>Messaging Anti-Abuse WG</em> in 2007 recommends:

:''Senders should incorporate as many authentication standards and technologies as their systems can support for each of their messaging streams: Transactional, Marketing and Corporate. These standards can range from mechanisms that help identify mailers by linking IPs to domains (Sender Policy Framework, known as SPF, and Sender ID) to more complicated cryptographic technologies like Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM). At the very least, senders should incorporate SPF records for their mailing domains.''

The [[http://www.maawg.org/about/MAAWG_Sender_BCP MAAWG Sender BCP]] published by the <em>Messaging Anti-Abuse WG</em> in 2007 recommends:

:''Senders should incorporate as many authentication standards and technologies as their systems can support for each of their messaging streams: Transactional, Marketing and Corporate. These standards can range from mechanisms that help identify mailers by linking IPs to domains (Sender Policy Framework, known as SPF, and Sender ID) to more complicated cryptographic technologies like Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM). At the very least, senders should incorporate SPF records for their mailing domains.''



[[Statistics|Deployment]] and [[Implementations]] should have reached the critical mass to deter professional spammers from abusing SPF FAIL protected domains, and SPF PASS can play an important role in [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoffman-dac-vbr Vouch by Reference]] and similar accreditation efforts.