Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Benoit Branciard 
<benoit.branciard@...> wrote:
>
> Emmanuel Dreyfus a écrit :
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:17:41AM +0200, Benoit Branciard wrote:
> >  > 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. 
> > 
> > So SPF is "neutral" for the message, right?
> 
> No, "Neutral" (?) and "SoftFail" (~) are different.
> 
> "Neutral" is merely "I can't tell" and must be treated the same 
way as 
> "None" (no SPF record at all), whereas "SoftFail" is more 
repressive 
> ("it shouldn't")
>

SOFTFAIL is often used during testing.

Jim