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> Jim Hermann <hostmaster@... <mailto:hostmaster%40uuism.net>> wrote:
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>  > I can wait for the SPF upgrade to all the possible statuses. I
>  > don't think it is a good idea to lump several statuses into one
>  > status called fail. A SOFTFAIL is entirely different than a hard
>  > FAIL.
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> What is a softfail? Is it just that you failed to obtain the SPF record?
> (ie: DNS failure)

This would be "TempError".
The "SoftFail" result indicates the sender host should not be 
authorized, but not as categorically as a "Fail". This is matched bu a 
"~" entry in the SPF record. Cf. http://www.openspf.org/RFC_4408#op-result.