Re: AT&T SMTP Admin contact?

[Chris Owen <owenc () hubris net>]

On Dec 3, 2009, at 12:42 AM, John Levine wrote:

> I also agree that any domain with live users (as opposed to mail
> cannons sending ads or transaction confirmations) is likely to
> experience pain with -all from all the overenthusiastic little MTAs
> whose managers imagine that "stopping forgery" will lessen their spam
> load rather than losing mail from roaming users.

Again I guess I don't understand.   How are these MTA managers being "overenthusiastic"?

Publishing a SPF (with -all) is essentially me requesting that they reject any mail from my domain not coming from one 
of the approved hosts.   I'm the one making the decision to ask them to bounce such mail.   Seems to me they are only 
being responsible in actually enforcing a policy that I set for the domain.

Chris

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