Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Sat 10/Feb/2024 13:10:19 +0100 Archange via mailop wrote: Le 10 février 2024 15:12:29 GMT+04:00, Hal Murray via mailop a écrit : I was picturing something like: user goes to final MTA and says I want you to accept forwarded mail for me from example.com then he goes to example.com

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-12 Thread Thomas Walter via mailop
On 12.02.24 21:21, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: The mail server providing the redirection may not be doing what the original address owner OR the owner of the address to which they are redirecting actually wants. Redirection could allow malicious server operators to direct 3rd parties to

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-12 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2024-02-12 at 14:23:39 UTC-0500 (Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:23:39 +0100) Thomas Walter via mailop is rumored to have said: > Hey Bill, > > On 12.02.24 17:31, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: >> On 2024-02-12 at 07:13:13 UTC-0500 (Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:13:13 +0100) >> Thomas Walter via mailop >> is rumored

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-12 Thread Thomas Walter via mailop
Hey Bill, On 12.02.24 17:31, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: On 2024-02-12 at 07:13:13 UTC-0500 (Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:13:13 +0100) Thomas Walter via mailop is rumored to have said: There are other issues with this though. For example you are exposing information you might not want to. Beyond

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-12 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2024-02-12 at 07:13:13 UTC-0500 (Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:13:13 +0100) Thomas Walter via mailop is rumored to have said: > There are other issues with this though. For example you are exposing > information you might not want to. Beyond that, it would enable both malicious reflection attacks and

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-12 Thread Thomas Walter via mailop
On 12.02.24 11:59, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: Dnia 11.02.2024 o godz. 00:10:54 Thomas Walter via mailop pisze: Remember when we had an SMTP status code 551? 551 User not local; please try Would be an ideal solution if sending SMTP servers would actually react to it like web browsers

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-12 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 11.02.2024 o godz. 00:10:54 Thomas Walter via mailop pisze: > Remember when we had an SMTP status code 551? > > 551 User not local; please try Would be an ideal solution if sending SMTP servers would actually react to it like web browsers react to HTTP 301 or 302 status code, ie.

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-12 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 10.02.2024 o godz. 07:52:43 Sebastian Nielsen via mailop pisze: > Try it yourself in your email software. > Click Forward. > Sending this email will basically rewrite the headers and add Fwd: into > subject. > > You can also click "Forward as an attachment", which will forward the > original

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-12 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 10.02.2024 o godz. 12:42:36 L. Mark Stone via mailop pisze: > 1. We have trained our Zimbra users who want their email to be copied > someplace else to configure the someplace else to log in and collect their > email from Zimbra, after having educated them that Forwarding is > problematic and

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-10 Thread Thomas Walter via mailop
Remember when we had an SMTP status code 551? 551 User not local; please try Pepperidge Farm remembers. SCNR, Thomas Walter -- Thomas Walter Datenverarbeitungszentrale FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences - Corrensstr. 25, Raum B 112 48149 Münster Tel: +49 251 83 64 908 Fax: +49

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-10 Thread Sebastian Nielsen via mailop
>>To me this seems "fairer" than wrapping the message alone, because the >>forwarding server now takes on the burden of the reputation hit for that >>message. >>Eventually, enough viagra messages will be forwarded that the >>forwarder can't get any mail delivered anywhere. That’s on the

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-10 Thread G. Miliotis via mailop
You have a good point in that the first and main problem is that the forwarder cannot be trusted to not mangle or fake the original message. Nothing else can be sorted out until this gets out of the way, including OOB communication between originator and final receiver. Which is in effect

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-10 Thread L. Mark Stone via mailop
l Murray" , "Hal Murray via mailop" , "Marco Moock" Cc: "mailop" Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2024 7:10:19 AM Subject: Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess? Le 10 février 2024 15:12:29 GMT+04:00, Hal Murray via mailop a écrit : > >m...@dorfds

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-10 Thread Archange via mailop
Le 10 février 2024 15:12:29 GMT+04:00, Hal Murray via mailop a écrit : > >m...@dorfdsl.de said: >> Bypassing spam checking would make spammers use exactly that way to send >> spam. > >Sorry I wasn't clear enough. > >My "handshke to set things up" was meant to keep out spammers. > >The idea

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-10 Thread Hal Murray via mailop
m...@dorfdsl.de said: > Bypassing spam checking would make spammers use exactly that way to send > spam. Sorry I wasn't clear enough. My "handshke to set things up" was meant to keep out spammers. The idea was that the final receiving MTA would know that it was expecting forwarded mail for

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-09 Thread Sebastian Nielsen via mailop
orwarder's point of view (authentication headers and similar). -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Hal Murray via mailop Skickat: den 10 februari 2024 07:26 Till: mailop@mailop.org Kopia: Hal Murray Ämne: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess? I expect that there would be a protocol

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-09 Thread Marco Moock via mailop
Am Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:09:45 -0800 schrieb Hal Murray via mailop : > I expect that there would be a protocol to handle it. I can't be the > only one who has thought of this. After a handshke to set things up, > the sender adds a forwarding header and the receiver verifies that a > forwarded

[mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-09 Thread Hal Murray via mailop
I expect that there would be a protocol to handle it. I can't be the only one who has thought of this. After a handshke to set things up, the sender adds a forwarding header and the receiver verifies that a forwarded message is coming from an allowed IP Address then bypasses spam checking