I saw a few threads on google that brought up a question.

When a user sends mail to a mailing list that will then be echo'ed out 
from that lists MTA, one would expect that the mail "envelope" meets the 
SPF for the domain it claims to be sending from.

So if a list called "[email protected]" recieves a 
submission by me "[email protected]" that it would construct an SMTP 
envelope where the "mail from:" directive is from the e-mail address: 
<[email protected]> and comes from an MTA that meets the 
SPF declaration: "v=spf1 ip4:12.31.165.64/27 ip4:208.48.95.16/28 
ip4:216.34.181.0/24 include:gmail.com ?all"

I know the ehlo <sending fqdn> is not often properly filled in, and SPF is 
usually tuned to allow failures here.

Now I see that this list itself builds the envelope "mail from:" to be the 
end user that sent the submission. Doesn't this risk getting trashed?




Nick





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Nick Ellson
CCIE# 20018
MCSE 2000, Security+, Network+
Network Hobbyist, VFR Private Pilot.


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