From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18036 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2011 21:43:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 18029 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Feb 2011 21:43:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rt.gnu.org (HELO rt.gnu.org) (199.232.76.167) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:43:49 +0000 Received: from www-data by rt.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pp6Cv-0000tt-Q4; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:43:45 -0500 Subject: Re: [gnu.org #670482] SPF record for gcc.gnu.org From: "ian@airs.com via RT" Reply-To: sysadmin@gnu.org In-Reply-To: References: <20110214170132.GA31421@redhat.com> Message-ID: X-RT-Loop-Prevention: gnu.org RT-Ticket: gnu.org #670482 Managed-by: RT 3.4.5 (http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/) RT-Originator: ian@airs.com To: fche@redhat.com, gerald@pfeifer.com Cc: overseers@gcc.gnu.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-RT-Original-Encoding: utf-8 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:43:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-q1/txt/msg00050.txt.bz2 "Bernie Innocenti via RT" writes: >> > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> > > All e-mail from addresses @gcc.gnu.org should come from gcc.gnu.org >> > > itself. Therefore, I believe the correct SPF record should be >> > >> > Are you sure of this? I think I'm seeing people using >> > @gcc.gnu.org addresses when posting to mailing lists [...] >> >> Good point. And since many of those people don't have shell access on >> the machine, it's not like they could easily send the mail from there. > > So the SPF record for gcc.gnu.org should be: > > gcc.gnu.org. TXT "v=spf1 a ?all" > > If you agree, I'll go ahead and make the change. OK, let's do that. Thanks. I actually think it is very unwise for people to send e-mail using addresses @gcc.gnu.org. gcc.gnu.org hosts software development projects, and is absolutely not intended to serve as an e-mail forwarding address. However, I suppose we shouldn't break people doing that without any notice. Ian