Reindl Harald: > > Steve Fatula: > >> Have not seen a discussion of this lately, I'd like to hear pros > >> of disallowing said spoofing. It appears it's "allowed" in the > >> SMTP "standard". So, are there reasons to not allow it? > > > > You mean, forbid mailing list postings (like yours), because they > > arrive from outside, but have a sender address inside the network? > > sorry but they do not have! > > on some internal-relays maybe but this is not the place > where spoof-protection is a topic > > but on your mx-side they are coming from my address and the > received mails have an envelope @postfix.org
For most users, "spoofing" is about email with their address in the From: header, coming from an outside machine. The average email user has no idea what an envelope sender is. Wietse