Microsoft to put SPF into action on Hotmail servers

Slashdot has up a great little blurb on the fact that Microsoft is pushing SPF out to its Hotmail servers in a few months time.

I feel like we had posted something like this awhile back, but I looked into our archives with a very brief search and didn't immediately find anything - so perhaps my brain is just playing tricks on me.

Nonetheless, this is a very good thing since Microsoft in this case is the 900lb gorilla that is going to end up forcing many other big players to take action like this.

That said, I have to be totally honest and admit that in my office (the day job, totally unrelated to Spamblogging) I have yet to setup SPF on our mailserver. It seems that any minor change we make, even if it shouldn't make any difference at all to anything else on the network, always breaks 7 other things that shouldn't at all be related.
As a result, I am hesitant to do any such thing until Exchange 2003 comes out with patch that allows us to just click on a single thing to enable it... even then I don't know.

Sorry, I guess I'm a little jaded with all of the recent time I have been spending on our servers when I would rather be programming.

Posted by Eric at July 23, 2004 02:40 PM | TrackBack