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Project Overview

About SPF

Welcome to the Sender Policy Framework project!

Read an introduction to what SPF is, or about how SPF fits into the bigger picture of e-mail authentication.

Further Reading

SPF vs Sender ID – Is SPF the same thing as Sender ID? Which is better?

FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions.

Project Agenda – Our plans for the near future.

About Us – The people behind the SPF project.

Contacting Us

For questions not answered by the website or the forums, or for media inquiries, please contact us directly.

Latest News

Recent changes to this site | News | Press releases

SPFv1 = RFC 4408, and other news from the SPF Project

The SPF project's website has moved to http://www.openspf.orgSPFv1 has been published by the IETF as RFC 4408 — The controversy about SPF and Sender ID — The project has set its agenda for 2006 — The project extends its thanks to the 2005 SPF Council — Introducing the elected 2006 CouncilRead the announcement...

Sender ID should not re-use SPFv1 records for PRA checking

The SPF Project has appealed the IESG's decision to publish the Sender ID specification unchanged as an Experimental RFC in concert with the SPF specification. Sender ID re-uses SPF's v=spf1 records for PRA checking, which was not anticipated by publishing domain owners and could thus interrupt their e-mail operation. Read the appeal.

More news...

Deploying SPF

Publishing SPF Records

Use our setup wizard to create SPF records for your domain:

SPF Record Syntax – The SPF record syntax in detail.

ToolsSPF record testing tools.

Checking SPF

Implementations – Mail servers and clients that support SPF or can be extended to do so.

Implementing SPF Software

Specifications – The SPF technical reference (RFC 4408) and its predecessors. Please update your implementations!

ImplementationsSPF libraries for various programming languages.

Community & Help

The Community section of the website can be freely edited by everybody.

Support – Where to get support for deploying SPF.

Forums – The project's mailing lists and IRC channel for technical, scientific, and political discussions about SPF and e-mail authentication.

Meetups – Meet members of the SPF community in person.

The SPF Council

The 2006 council election | The council members | Council resolutions



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