[Gllug] Configuring SPF to cope with secondary incoming mail servers

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at workshy.org
Tue Dec 5 10:56:20 UTC 2006


On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:05:13AM +0000, Alain wrote:
> 
> The main downside is simple minded mail s/ware (like at clara-net) that does
> not rewrite the From address.

Surely you mean the envelope sender address?  The mailing list software
should not normally be touching the From header. 

There's a lot of confusion about the difference between those two quite
separate addresses amongst SPF advocates, which is a major reason why it
is an annoyance and not just an irrelevance.

-- 
Bruce

Bitterly it mathinketh me, that I spent mine wholle lyf in the lists
against the ignorant.  -- Roger Bacon, "Doctor Mirabilis"
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