On 2 Sep 2020, at 10:39, Pete Resnick wrote:
On 1 Sep 2020, at 22:45, Bill Cole wrote:
On 1 Sep 2020, at 21:22, Antonio Leding wrote:
Or perhaps a better plan of attack is to decouple the SMTP account
definition from the actual IMAP accounts…in essence the ability to
create SMTP account profiles that then can be attached to a given
IMAP account. Think of how awesome this would be. Define the SMTP
server account once and then use it across several IMAP accounts.
That is a very different and better feature. It has been years since
I last suggested it to Benny, and I don't remember how or if he
responded. The one downside I can see with it comes from supporting
Apple Mail users. Users who don't have a strong understanding of how
email works are sometimes confused by its implementation.
Another problem is that some sites are starting to configure the DMARC
anti-spam protocol to reject email where the SMTP server does not
match the From: address.
That's a piece of the confusion I've seen: generally a misunderstanding
of the fact that there are multiple mostly-unseen mechanisms that should
constrain how and where one submits a particular email message. DMARC,
DKIM, SPF, and bespoke site-specific rules (which may or may not be
explicit) can break mail in ways that aren't very transparent to
senders.
I will spare the list any debate of whether DMARC is an anti-spam
mechanism or merely an anti-forgery tool.
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Bill Cole
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