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Re: [LUG] SPF was Re: Linux - viruses etc

 

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7 February 2013 12:54, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Almost no one rejects on SPF hard fail because it gives too many false
>> positives.
>
> What does false positives mean here? That mail classed as spam is not
> actually spam?

That. So in this case, legitimate mail that fails SPF checks and thus
is incorrectly blocked because of that.

Martijn.

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