Jean-Pierre Schwickerath wrote:
Ignore it and if a hotmail customer complains to you, tell them their hotmail SPAM filter is busted and you can not do anything against it. The hotmail users should start yelling at Microsoft and not at anybody else.
I wouldn't see it so bad. First, they'll start in november which leaves some time to the rest of the world to adapt to the situation. Second, I
I'd rather say it leaves some time to their users to move to other more useful freemail accounts like Gmail etc. There is not much point in getting forced into this SPF stupidity by Microsoft because the damage of putting SenderID records on your domain is likely greater than not doing it. And losing the ability to send mail to hotmail accounts is not really a loss.
think it's a good point to promote SPF ( I know we already hat the discussion about whether SPF is good or bad ). Third, it seems as if the message will only be tagged as spam and not deleted or rejected. It's like giving spamassassin a high score for SPF.
Are you sure? IIRC they are going to reject all email without SID.
With AOL and now Microsoft (counting only the really big ones) adopting SPF I see a real chance for this technology to be successfully used.
Be careful here. SPF =! SID.