On 07.12.20 22:47, John Levine via mailop wrote: > People do use them as part of a scoring spam filter. But no sensible person > uses SPF alone to do mail filtering.
I also thought that no sensible person would discard messages even though the SPF entry owner asks them to do a softfail, but I guess I was wrong. > Uh, no. I have lots of users with role accounts who read their mail at > gmail. Forwarding is as useful as it ever was, even though it is ever > harder to to do successfully. I fully agree, but gmail is a bad example, because they actually support importing remote mailboxes with pop3 which does not require forwarding. We never tried that, but it is an option: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289 But yes, please do not bash forwarding, just because someone invented a mechanism that ignored the basics of email traffic. Regards, 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: +49 251 83 64 910 www.fh-muenster.de/dvz/
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