Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C170 Guia Do Utilizador

AsyncOS supports Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Sender ID Framework (SIDF) verification. SPF 
and SIDF are methods for verifying authenticity of email based on DNS records. SPF and SIDF allow 
the owner of an Internet domain to use a special format of DNS TXT records to specify which machines 
are authorized to transmit email for that domain. Compliant mail receivers then use the published SPF 
records to test the authorization of the sending Mail Transfer Agent’s identity during a mail transaction.

When you use SPF/SIDF authentication, the senders publish SPF records specifying which hosts are 
permitted to use their names, and compliant mail receivers use the published SPF records to test the 
authorization of the sending Mail Transfer Agent’s identity during a mail transaction. 

Because SPF checks require parsing and evaluation, AsyncOS performance may be impacted. In 
addition, be aware that SPF checks increase the load on your DNS infrastructure.

When you work with SPF and SIDF, note that SIDF is similar to SPF, but it has some differences. To get 
a full description of the differences between SIDF and SPF, see RFC 

4406. F

or the purposes of this 

documentation, the two terms are discussed together except in the cases where only one type of 
verification applies.

AsyncOS does not support SPF for incoming relays.

To use SPF and SIDF with a appliance, publish the SPF record according to the RFCs 4406 and 4408. 
Review RFC 4407 for a definition of how the PRA identity is determined. You may also want to refer to 
the following website to view common mistakes made when creating SPF and SIDF records:

http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Common_mistakes

To pass the SPF HELO check, ensure that you include a “v=spf1 a –all” SPF record for each sending 
MTA (separate from the domain). If you do not include this record, the HELO check will likely result in 
a None verdict for the HELO identity. If you notice that SPF senders to your domain return a high 
number of None verdicts, these senders may not have included a “v=spf1 a –all” SPF record for each 
sending MTA.

To support the SIDF framework, you need to publish both “v=spf1” and “spf2.0” records. For example, 
your DNS record may look like the following example:

example.com. TXT "v=spf1 +mx a:colo.example.com/28 -all"

smtp-out.example.com TXT "v=spf1 a -all"

example.com. TXT "spf2.0/mfrom,pra +mx a:colo.example.com/28 -all"