Re: TECH: use fetchmail algorithm to select header address to verify

[Yakov Shafranovich <research@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 07:30:31PM -0000,
>  John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxx> wrote 
>  a message of 74 lines which said:
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> > My proposal is to use this scheme to determine the address to check,
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> Nice idea but, as discussions on this group showed, there is little
> hope to have a consensus on this algorithm. Hence the "unified SPF"
> (http://spf.pobox.com/unified/) idea which disconnects the protocol
> and the DNS RR from the choice of the domain used for the
> validation. "Unified SPF" gives you several choices for this domain
> and your (fetchmail's) algorithm could be one of them.

The consensus if any so far has been in regards to PRA. I haven't seen 
anybody posting yet in regards to this one.

Personally, I am very for using fetchmail's algorithm if it helps take 
care of the IPR issues. But there is still IPR issues with marid-core 
and I am not sure if this will take care of it.

Yakov