Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution???

[Paul Fox]

ralph wrote:
 > Hi Andy,
...
 > > I was so
 > > surprised to  actually find a domain  that used -all that  I immediately
 > > put on my ``for science'' hat and proceeded to test.
 > 
 > twitter.com and amazon.com are two others with `-all' IIRC.

i'm surprised at the surprise.  it's the only tool available to
reduce the impact of forged spam -- i.e., someone sends mail
pretending to be me, and then i inherit the bounce storm.  i don't
know that -all is the sole reason, but i haven't had one of those
bounce storms in years.  it could be inconvenient at times, i suppose,
but hasn't been for me.  i run my own primary smart host, but to
allow occasionally sending mail from gmail with From: set to my
home address my SPF includes the google SPF block:
    $ dig foxharp.boston.ma.us txt
    foxharp.boston.ma.us.   1799    IN      TXT     \
        "v=spf1 mx ip4:173.48.171.74 include:_spf.google.com -all"

(the IP address is my home internet connection, which isn't an MX for
my domain.)


 > A larger space indicates to me a significant break, e.g. end of
 > sentence.  Lack of hyphenation means many spaces are becoming two in
 > your formatting, creating ugly rivers of whitespace.  These are a
 > problem in typesetting of proportional fonts fully justified;
 > fixed-width doesn't have a chance.  Subjective, I agree.
 > 
 > It also breaks vim's formatting of the `> ' quotes lines above, i.e. it
 > preserves the multiple spaces thinking they're significant.

huh.  finally something that vile unequivocally does better than vim. ;-)

paul
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