On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:52:12AM +0100, Jean-Pierre Schwickerath wrote: > > > All mailing list forward mail with the original sender in the > > enveloppe > > Not true: Mails from the swinog-mailinglist reach my mailserver with > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as sender envelope address >
Jup, my bad that's true most use some sort of VERPs. Unless it is a simple distribution list. > > and if you forward your mail on one server to another one > > with e.g. a simple .forward rule it will also re-use the same > > envelope from address. Forwarding mail is very common and it is > > important to use the same envelope form address in the forwarding > > path. Everybody who denies this fact does not understand the email > > system and the way bounces work. > > If you chose to forward mail this way, then you'd better make sure that > the destination mail server doesn't apply spf checks for mails coming > from the relaying server. or that the forwarding server rewrites the > sender address. > > If you're a provider that allows its users to forward their mail to > remote addresses, then I'd advise you to use sender rewriting and thus > offer your customers a reliable mail relaying. That's a marketing > argument. > Woohoo. Breaking something and then requiring others to fix it for you and labeling something that is less reliable as "reliable". Let's see, I think that's summing it up perfectly: http://www.idrewthis.org/d/20060619.html > > But in the end, everyone can do whatever they want to do ;-) > No they can't because of self-appointed Anti-SPAM marshals breaking deliberatly official standards causing marjor pain to others. -- :wq Claudio _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
