Subject: Re: DEPLOY: microsoft SenderID wizard seriously flawed, unusable,

From: "Holm, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:34:25 -0400

I'm the one who pointed out over on spf-discuss that the Microsoft Sender ID record wizard appears to be broken.

Unlike some others, I don't see it as a sign of conspiricy.  Just a screwed up piece of programming.  Probably the result of a rush job based on incomplete or bad information.

The things I noted:

1. The  plain  a  mechanism doesn't work.  If you click the box to get it, it never appears in the final record.

2.  Both the  a  and  mx  mechanism's encourage the user to put ipv4 or ipv6 addresses as arguments to the mechanisms.  I understand this, though not specifically forbidden by the spec., is not good practice.

3.  The wizard prefixes the records with v=spf2.0/pra   I understand that this syntax is still very much under debate and can not yet be considered part of the specification.

I'm not an expert.  I may have missed things or misunderstood things, but I think there is evidence that the wizard needs some healing magic :)

Mark Holm