I'm sorry, but your query below does not parse. The envelope sender does not change depending on which host it arrives from when using Thunderbird et al. The host from which it arrives changes, but that's not part of the envelope.

And yes, you can disable anything with a network profile.  rtfm.

Miles Fidelman wrote:
I starting to set up SPF records for the domains I manage, and have run into a little snag. I hope somebody can suggest an approach:

BASIC CONFIGURATION:
Debian Sarge
Postfix (from stable - so it's a relatively old version, 2.1 I believe)
amavisd-new
spamassassin
clamav
Postfix configured with postfix-tls (SASL) but only for MD-5 authentication of incoming SMTP

For the most part, I use the machine as a list server (Sympa) and web host, but I also have three email accounts on the box.

The listserver, and one of the email accounts, originate mail on the host (the email account, using pine) - so, for SPF purposes, the envelope sender is always the server, and all works just fine.

But... for the other two email accounts, mail originates from desktop clients (Thunderbird). And here's the rub:
- I want to apply virus and spam checks to incoming mail, but...
- for SPF purposes, the envelope sender is now the dynamic IP of the desktop clients, so it's hard/impossible to put that in the SPF record - so, mail submitted from desktop clients is getting marked as failing the SPF check

So... is there a way to turn off SPF checks for mail coming from authenticated clients, without turning off all the other checks (as, for example, would happen if mail was submitted via port 587)?

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Jo Rhett
Network/Software Engineer
Net Consonance

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