Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-08 Thread Nick Hayer

Hi Sandy

Sanford Whiteman wrote:


Andrew,  I  like  your  workaround  with the Program Alias. However, I
think  that  instead,  if  people are willing to wait a few weeks to a
month,  I  can  find  time to put out a full-fledged external test for
Declude  that  does  much  the  same  thing,  without  having to forge
brand-new Q files and so on, honoring IMail-level forwards.
 

Although I am going to give Andrew's tactic a try now I would very much 
appreciate your external test when it becomes available.


Thanks!

-Nick
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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-08 Thread Nick Hayer




Wow thanks for the efforts here Andrew - Nice work!

-Nick

Colbeck, Andrew wrote:

  
  
  
  
  Hey, Nick.
   
  I spent some time poking at this
with a stick.
   
  Since I just use IMail as a
gateway so that I can use Declude... I've had no use for IMail
mailboxes or forwarding, so it was all new to me.
   
  The real answer is that you
should lobby Ipswitch to implement that sender re-writing in their
forwarding (what the heck... all of SPF plus the bells and whistles
while they're at it).  If you can garner support from other people to
make the same request, all the better.
   
  You can also tell your client
"Sorry, Adelphia controls how [EMAIL PROTECTED]
email is moved around and since the destination you want adheres to
Adelphia's wishes, I can't forward it.  However, if you do have Adelpha
forward the mail to me, I can filter out the spam and viruses, and you
can use POP/IMAP to retrieve the good mail from my server."
   
  As a new policy, you would want
to double-check that any mailbox for which you do forwarding doesn't
send mail from some domain that has a tight SPF, or whomever you're
fowarding to (e.g. surfglobal.net) will see you as a spammer.
   
  If you want to perservere and
build your own forwarding system, what I found was that:
   
  1) Just doing a "forward" action
on a mailbox was functionally identical to making an IMail mailbox with
a rule that says "if sender email contains '@'
then forward the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and that this
forwarding violates SPF for a domain like Adelphia.com.
   
  2) It's not easy but it's not
impossible to instead use a Program Alias instead.  That program alias
would call a batch file with optional parameters (let's say we provide
two in our configuration).  That batch then receives a %3 parameter
added on that contains a tmp*.tmp filename which is really a D*.SMD
file with a different name in the \imail\spool folder.
   
  The first thing the
batch would do is some sanity checks.
   
  You would have to avoid mail
loops and other badness by making sure that this is a message that
should be forwarded, e.g. not a bounce message from whomever you're
forwarding messages to!  If it is crap, it should delete the tmp*.tmp
file and exit.
   
  The second thing the
script would do is manufacture a Q*.SMD file.
   
  Since you've already got the
D*.SMD file, if you can just manufacture an appropriate Q*.SMD file,
you can have IMail re-send the message while passing on the complete
headers and without having to do any editing of the D*.SMD file
although there probably are useful smarty pants edits (e.g. changing
the "From:" line to something like "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or inserting the frills Received-SPF:
header).
   
  Here's the format of the Q*.SMD
file, as per the venerable R. Scott Perry:
   
  http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum@list.ipswitch.com/msg64280.html
   
  The
"S" sender row would normally be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but that violates SPF, so you instead specify [EMAIL PROTECTED]
there.
   
  The "R" recipient row would then
be the 3rd party destination, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
   
  In my testing it seemed that
also using the "N" original recipient row to the sender field would
preserve the "Reply-To:" as the original sender but that may have been
an artifact of bad thinking on my part (you'd best extract the original
Declude spoolname from the tmp*.tmp file and use that to extract the
MAILFROM for that message from the sys*.txt file! [To get that, you
must use the "XSENDER  ON" option in your global.cfg file])
   
  The "Q" file row defines the
fully qualified name of the tmp*.tmp file and doesn't have to be D*.SMD
format; you can just specify the tmp*.tmp file here.
   
  The "H" host row is just your
normal name for the IMail host.
   
  The "I" guid row contains the
long id number that IMail will use in the sys*.txt file to identify
this message.  Ideally this would be unique every time; however for
testing you could write out the same row every time.
   
  Here's a sample:
   
  QC:\IMail\spool\tmp1B.tmp
  Hmail.madriver.com
  Ic507787800822fbd
  WC:\IMail
  S<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  NRCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  R<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   
   
  The third thing the
script would do is to have IMail deliver the message.
   
  Here's
how to re-queue a single Q*.SMD + D*.SMD pair:
   
  http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-2623-DM02.htm
   
  The short version being that if
you make sure that the Q*.SMD file (which can be any filename) contains
the "Q" row and a fully qualified D*.SMD file (which can be any
filename) you can just call:
   
  smtp32.exe Qxxx.SMD and
IMail will queue it up immediately.
   
   
  Ta-dah!  Easy as world peace.
   
  And

RE: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks, Sandy.

I liked this approach for a couple of reasons; off the top of my head:

1) I was sure that Declude locks the Q*.SMD file (if for no other reason
than to stop Imail from poaching them) and possibly the D*.SMD file so I
thought an external test wouldn't be able to "redirect" them.

2) I wanted to leave the option open to rewrite the D*.SMD file, such as
inserting a custom header line.

3) Configuration would be very easy.  For example, each time a Program
Alias is created in IMail, the first two parameters could be the
"destination at my domain" and the "destination at the forwarded
domain"; when the script or program is called, it is provided with the
hardcoded "from" and "to" addresses and then the name of tmp*.tmp file
(which is really a D*.SMD file).

4) The DAISYCHAIN directive has received little attention in the years
I've been using Declude with IMail, so it's probably not a good feature
to rely on if I spec'ed this to be an external program that would run
after Declude and change the queuing behaviour.

5) It makes the assumption that the other Declude filters and
antispamming can go ahead as planned; I didn't have to think about the
law of unintended consequences.

6) That previous item expands to my trying to write a two part solution
where an external filter creates the correct condition, and then a
doesn't-scale-well Declude filter test plus action to COPYTO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lines

7) I had already downloaded one of the "official" distributions of
source code for SRS and it made my eyes swim; it was pretty clear that
SRS tackles a much larger problem than the envelope re-writing I could
almost reach this way.

Andrew 8)



> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Sanford Whiteman
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 6:37 PM
> To: Colbeck, Andrew
> Subject: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -
> 
> > If you want to perservere and build your own forwarding 
> system, what I 
> > found was that. . .
> 
> Andrew,  I  like  your  workaround  with the Program Alias. 
> However, I think  that  instead,  if  people are willing to 
> wait a few weeks to a month,  I  can  find  time to put out a 
> full-fledged external test for Declude  that  does  much  the 
>  same  thing,  without  having to forge brand-new Q files and 
> so on, honoring IMail-level forwards.
> 
> --Sandy
> 
> 
> 
> Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
> Broadleaf Systems, a division of
> Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
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Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-07 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Back  to  SRS. SRS isn't just simply changing the Mail From address,
> it  is  a  system that requires both the encoding and parsing of the
> Mail  From addresses, and it requires both the sending and receiving
> MTA  to  be  SRS aware. The following is from what is apparently the
> master SRS document. . .

I'm  not  going  for  an  SRS  implementation,  but a simple method of
performing   server-side   envelope   sender  address  rewriting.  The
implementation  is  not  intended for use by dedicated forwarders, who
must  by  necessity assume the pass-through of both messages and DSNs.
Rather,  it  is  intended  for  mailbox  providers  to pre-fetch IMail
account-  and  mailbox-level  forwards and rewrite accordingly. Things
will  break:  bounces  of  forwarded  mail will not be returned to the
original  sender,  and  this breakage is by design. But SPF 1.0 checks
will pass, which is the matter under discussion.

--Sandy



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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-07 Thread Matt
orry, Adelphia controls how [EMAIL PROTECTED]
email is moved around and since the destination you want adheres to
Adelphia's wishes, I can't forward it.  However, if you do have Adelpha
forward the mail to me, I can filter out the spam and viruses, and you
can use POP/IMAP to retrieve the good mail from my server."
   
  As a new policy, you would want
to double-check that any mailbox for which you do forwarding doesn't
send mail from some domain that has a tight SPF, or whomever you're
fowarding to (e.g. surfglobal.net) will see you as a spammer.
   
  If you want to perservere and
build your own forwarding system, what I found was that:
   
  1) Just doing a "forward" action
on a mailbox was functionally identical to making an IMail mailbox with
a rule that says "if sender email contains '@'
then forward the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and that this
forwarding violates SPF for a domain like Adelphia.com.
   
  2) It's not easy but it's not
impossible to instead use a Program Alias instead.  That program alias
would call a batch file with optional parameters (let's say we provide
two in our configuration).  That batch then receives a %3 parameter
added on that contains a tmp*.tmp filename which is really a D*.SMD
file with a different name in the \imail\spool folder.
   
  The first thing the
batch would do is some sanity checks.
   
  You would have to avoid mail
loops and other badness by making sure that this is a message that
should be forwarded, e.g. not a bounce message from whomever you're
forwarding messages to!  If it is crap, it should delete the tmp*.tmp
file and exit.
   
  The second thing the
script would do is manufacture a Q*.SMD file.
   
  Since you've already got the
D*.SMD file, if you can just manufacture an appropriate Q*.SMD file,
you can have IMail re-send the message while passing on the complete
headers and without having to do any editing of the D*.SMD file
although there probably are useful smarty pants edits (e.g. changing
the "From:" line to something like "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or inserting the frills Received-SPF:
header).
   
  Here's the format of the Q*.SMD
file, as per the venerable R. Scott Perry:
   
  http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum@list.ipswitch.com/msg64280.html
   
  The
"S" sender row would normally be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but that violates SPF, so you instead specify [EMAIL PROTECTED]
there.
   
  The "R" recipient row would then
be the 3rd party destination, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
   
  In my testing it seemed that
also using the "N" original recipient row to the sender field would
preserve the "Reply-To:" as the original sender but that may have been
an artifact of bad thinking on my part (you'd best extract the original
Declude spoolname from the tmp*.tmp file and use that to extract the
MAILFROM for that message from the sys*.txt file! [To get that, you
must use the "XSENDER  ON" option in your global.cfg file])
   
  The "Q" file row defines the
fully qualified name of the tmp*.tmp file and doesn't have to be D*.SMD
format; you can just specify the tmp*.tmp file here.
   
  The "H" host row is just your
normal name for the IMail host.
   
  The "I" guid row contains the
long id number that IMail will use in the sys*.txt file to identify
this message.  Ideally this would be unique every time; however for
testing you could write out the same row every time.
   
  Here's a sample:
   
  QC:\IMail\spool\tmp1B.tmp
  Hmail.madriver.com
  Ic507787800822fbd
  WC:\IMail
  S<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  NRCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  R<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   
   
  The third thing the
script would do is to have IMail deliver the message.
   
  Here's
how to re-queue a single Q*.SMD + D*.SMD pair:
   
  http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-2623-DM02.htm
   
  The short version being that if
you make sure that the Q*.SMD file (which can be any filename) contains
the "Q" row and a fully qualified D*.SMD file (which can be any
filename) you can just call:
   
  smtp32.exe Qxxx.SMD and
IMail will queue it up immediately.
   
   
  Ta-dah!  Easy as world peace.
   
  Andrew 8)
   
  
  
  

 From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nick
Hayer
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 1:13 PM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -


Matt wrote:
Real-world
issues include working around bad implementation, such as
surfglobal.net not configuring their server to reject messages that
fail SPF.

SRS is a work around - and I'm simply asking if anyone has implemented
it on an Imail/Declude platform. Kindly stay on topic  I am aware
of your feelings about SPF - all I'm doing is working out a soluti

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-07 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> If you want to perservere and build your own forwarding system, what
> I found was that. . .

Andrew,  I  like  your  workaround  with the Program Alias. However, I
think  that  instead,  if  people are willing to wait a few weeks to a
month,  I  can  find  time to put out a full-fledged external test for
Declude  that  does  much  the  same  thing,  without  having to forge
brand-new Q files and so on, honoring IMail-level forwards.

--Sandy



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Broadleaf Systems, a division of
Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew




Hey, Nick.
 
I spent some time poking at this with a 
stick.
 
Since I just use IMail as a gateway so that I can use 
Declude... I've had no use for IMail mailboxes or forwarding, so it was all new 
to me.
 
The real answer is that you should lobby Ipswitch to 
implement that sender re-writing in their forwarding (what the heck... all of 
SPF plus the bells and whistles while they're at it).  If you can garner 
support from other people to make the same request, all the 
better.
 
You can also tell your client "Sorry, Adelphia controls how 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] email is moved around and 
since the destination you want adheres to Adelphia's wishes, I can't 
forward it.  However, if you do have Adelpha forward the mail to me, I can 
filter out the spam and viruses, and you can use POP/IMAP to retrieve the 
good mail from my server."
 
As a new policy, you would want to double-check that any 
mailbox for which you do forwarding doesn't send mail from some domain that has 
a tight SPF, or whomever you're fowarding to (e.g. surfglobal.net) will see you 
as a spammer.
 
If you want to perservere and build your own forwarding 
system, what I found was that:
 
1) Just doing a "forward" action on a mailbox was 
functionally identical to making an IMail mailbox with a rule that says "if 
sender email contains '@' then forward the mail to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and that this forwarding violates SPF for a domain like 
Adelphia.com.
 
2) It's not easy but it's not impossible to instead use a 
Program Alias instead.  That program alias would call a batch file with 
optional parameters (let's say we provide two in our configuration).  That 
batch then receives a %3 parameter added on that contains a tmp*.tmp filename 
which is really a D*.SMD file with a different name in the \imail\spool 
folder.
 
The first thing the batch would do is some sanity 
checks.
 
You would have to avoid mail loops and other 
badness by making sure that this is a message that should be forwarded, 
e.g. not a bounce message from whomever you're forwarding messages to!  If 
it is crap, it should delete the tmp*.tmp file and exit.
 
The second thing the script would do is manufacture 
a Q*.SMD file.
 
Since you've already got the D*.SMD file, if you can just 
manufacture an appropriate Q*.SMD file, you can have IMail re-send the message 
while passing on the complete headers and without having to do any editing of 
the D*.SMD file although there probably are useful smarty pants edits (e.g. 
changing the "From:" line to something like "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or inserting the frills Received-SPF: 
header).
 
Here's the format of the Q*.SMD file, as per the venerable 
R. Scott Perry:
 
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum@list.ipswitch.com/msg64280.html
 
The "S" sender 
row would normally be [EMAIL PROTECTED] but that violates SPF, so 
you instead specify [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
there.
 
The "R" recipient row would then be the 3rd party 
destination, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

 
In my testing it seemed that also using the "N" original 
recipient row to the sender field would preserve the "Reply-To:" as the original 
sender but that may have been an artifact of bad thinking on my part (you'd best 
extract the original Declude spoolname from the tmp*.tmp file and use that to 
extract the MAILFROM for that message from the sys*.txt file! [To get that, you 
must use the "XSENDER  ON" option in your global.cfg 
file])
 
The "Q" file row defines the fully qualified name of the 
tmp*.tmp file and doesn't have to be D*.SMD format; you can just specify the 
tmp*.tmp file here.
 
The "H" host row is just your normal name for the IMail 
host.
 
The "I" guid row contains the long id number that IMail 
will use in the sys*.txt file to identify this message.  Ideally this would 
be unique every time; however for testing you could write out the same row every 
time.
 
Here's a sample:
 
QC:\IMail\spool\tmp1B.tmpHmail.madriver.comIc507787800822fbdWC:\IMailS<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>NRCPT 
TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>R<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 
 
The third thing the script would do is 
to have IMail deliver the 
message.
 
Here's how to 
re-queue a single Q*.SMD + D*.SMD pair:
 
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-2623-DM02.htm
 
The short version being that if you make sure that the 
Q*.SMD file (which can be any filename) contains the "Q" row and a fully 
qualified D*.SMD file (which can be any filename) you can just 
call:
 
smtp32.exe Qxxx.SMD and IMail will queue it up 
immediately.
 
 
Ta-dah!  Easy as world peace.
 
Andrew 8)
 

  
  
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Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-07 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Please don't assume that you have any idea how my policies are set.

I'm  not  assuming:  you've made some of them public. For example, you
touted  day-of-week  and hour tests as effective gauges of spamminess.
Note  that  I  don't disagree at all with your conclusions about these
tests.  I  mention  such  positions  to  show  that they are certainly
counter   to  your  prior  claim  that  RFC-compliance  alone  ensures
legitimacy.

More important, since it would be impossible to get real effectiveness
out of any anti-spam solution without following internal policies that
countermand  RFC  compliance, it is safe to say that _everyone_ who is
satisfied  with  Declude does not treat the RFC compliance of incoming
sessions/messages as grounds for whitelisting!

You  simply  wouldn't  be here if you took that much stock in RFCs; it
doesn't matter that you haven't revealed your whole config. AFAIK, the
only people who treat the RFCs with that much respect are the academic
anti-spam-is-fascism  advocates  (at least, those few who are actually
sincere and not trolls for the direct matrketing industry).

> Good  to  know,  next  time  I have to make sure that my servers can
> communicate  properly  with  the  rest of the world, I'll be sure to
> check  the  relevant  case law first. After all, I'm sure the courts
> will help me do a much better job than by following the RFCs.

Don't  really  see much there to mock, but knock yourself out. US Code
protects your right to restrict the use of domains you own in any MAIL
FROM.  The law therefore protects your ability to publish policies for
your  domain  that  are  expressly  intended  to  affect how and where
non-owners  of  your  domain may use the domain, as long as (and I did
mention  this  caveat  before)  such  protection does not contradict a
right  expressly  granted by a separate contract. There is no generic,
assumed right that a non-owner has to the use of a domain.

Look,  I  know you're very put out by SPF. You know you don't have the
kind  of  userbase, and the kind of relationship with your users, that
would  let you publish a policy. That's just fine. I have clients that
can't publish SPF either, so I'm not telling you that you have to find
a way to make it work. I'm telling you that it does work for some very
significant  domains,  domains  with  very  large legal departments at
that,  and  there is no legal argument against it. There may be an RFC
argument  against  it  --  *if*  in every area you treat RFC-compliant
senders  as  trusted  senders.  But  I think due to the nature of this
mailing  list,  there  is  a  justifiable presumption of guilt in that
department.

--Sandy



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Re[3]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-07 Thread Tyran Ormond

On 11:39 PM 3/6/2006 -0500, it would appear that Sanford Whiteman wrote:

>  Sure  it is, SPF is NOT an RFC and if the email follows RFC then it
>  is legit.

I'm  afraid  you have a rather exaggerated opinion of the relevance of
RFCs,  and  of  the  concept of domain ownership. RFCs are meaningless
when it comes to the acceptable use of your domain (which is protected
by  law, not at all by RFC). . . not to mention that the SMTP RFCs are
widely disregarded in spamfighting: I'm sure you have several policies
which do not respect all RFC MUSTs and SHOULDs.


Please don't assume that you have any idea how my policies are set.


The  courts  have affirmed that a domain owner solely controls the use
of  the  domain,  even  if  it is not a distinctly registered trade or
service  mark  (US Code Title 15, Chapter 22, Subchapter III, § 1127).
Anyone  else  is simply using the mark at the will of the owner and is
not protected any way by RFC. US Code v. RFC = no contest!


Good to know, next time I have to make sure that 
my servers can communicate properly with the rest 
of the world, I'll be sure to check the relevant 
case law first.  After all, I'm sure the courts 
will help me do a much better job than by following the RFCs.



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Re[3]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-06 Thread Sanford Whiteman
>  Sure  it is, SPF is NOT an RFC and if the email follows RFC then it
>  is legit.

I'm  afraid  you have a rather exaggerated opinion of the relevance of
RFCs,  and  of  the  concept of domain ownership. RFCs are meaningless
when it comes to the acceptable use of your domain (which is protected
by  law, not at all by RFC). . . not to mention that the SMTP RFCs are
widely disregarded in spamfighting: I'm sure you have several policies
which do not respect all RFC MUSTs and SHOULDs.

The  courts  have affirmed that a domain owner solely controls the use
of  the  domain,  even  if  it is not a distinctly registered trade or
service  mark  (US Code Title 15, Chapter 22, Subchapter III, § 1127).
Anyone  else  is simply using the mark at the will of the owner and is
not protected any way by RFC. US Code v. RFC = no contest!

> If  your  users  are employees, then you are correct.  If your users
> are customers, then you are wrong.  Paying customers have a right to
> expect services to conform to accepted RFCs. 

Use of a domain is dictated by the domain owner, not by people who are
customers,  employees,  or  in any other way using the domain with the
consent  of the owner. True, _if_ an ISP's EULA should warrant that no
measures  will  be  taken  to  block the use of the domain name by the
non-owners,  then  of  course it would be an illegal trade practice to
then   make   actionable  moves  toward  such  restrictions  (such  as
publishing an SPF policy) without revising and publicizing a new EULA.
But  no  one would be so stupid as to make such a declaration with any
enforceable wording -- I've never seen anything close.

You're  imagining  a  level of end-user protection which simply is not
generally recognized, though it may exist if literalized in a specific
contract.

--Sandy



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Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-06 Thread Tyran Ormond


On 08:54 PM 3/5/2006 -0500, it would appear that Sanford Whiteman
wrote:
> Perfectly legit email - my
spf recs are perfect etc.
No,  it's  *not*  legit!
Sure it is, SPF is NOT an RFC and if the email follows RFC then it is
legit.
My  users  don't 
have  the  right  to  have this restriction 
completely  ignored,  though they may rightly dispute the
resultant rejections.
If your users are employees, then you are correct.  If your users
are customers, then you are wrong.  Paying customers have a right to
expect services to conform to accepted RFCs.  SPF breaks multiple
RFCs (974 and 2821 come immediately to mind).

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Re: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-06 Thread Dean Lawrence
Couldn't you get around this whole issue by just adding the forwarding server to the SPF record?
 
Dean 
On 3/5/06, Sanford Whiteman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perfectly legit email - my spf recs are perfect etc.No,  it's  *not*  legit!  Domain  owners set SPF policies that dictate
legitimacy.  This  is  their  right.  SMTP  server  owners respect SPFpolicies. This is my obligation. If Adelphia sets a strict SPF policy,and  SurfGlobal respects it, so what? Don't assume that just because a
user  thinks  their  mail  should  go  through,  that  the  mail looks"uncontroversial," that the user is right.If  a  domain  owner  sets  a policy that says, "Mail with an envelopesender of @
example.com must only come from these servers," sure, maybethat  policy  will  prove unworkable later on. Maybe they didn't thinkenough  about server-level redirection (unlikely, since Adelphia isn't
exactly  a  tiny  company).  Maybe  they'll change their policies onceusers  start  getting  their  mail rejected (possible, with sufficientoutcry).  But  this all isn't your problem. If you're originating mail
that  fails the domain owner's policy, what's the big surprise that itgets bounced? I sure as heck would hope that it got bounced, if I werethe  domain  owner!  My  users  don't  have  the  right  to  have this
restriction  completely  ignored,  though they may rightly dispute theresultant rejections.Your  MTA  breaks the policy with its built-in forwarding function, soif  you  don't  want  to  change  your  forwarding  functionality, put
together  a  nice helpfile on your forwarding page (just like the kindof  thing  you  may have put together to inform people that they can'tforward  to  AOL)  that  warns them that the forwarded messages may be
bounced  back to the senders if the senders have restrictive policies.It shouldn't be difficult to articulate in userspeak: "If some of yourfriends or associates' ISPs allow them to send mail only _directly_ to
other  addresses,  you won't be able to 'relay' or 'zig-zag' that mailthrough  your  Mad  River  Access  account  to  the final destination.Restrictions  like  this  are placed by your friend's ISP or employer,
not  by  MRA! We'd be very happy to forward the mail, but your friendsaren't allowed to use this service."Recommend  that  they keep a copy on your server as a fallback againstsuch  situations  (aging  these  out,  of  course, if it's otherwise a
global  forward).  *Let* the SPF failures keep getting bounced back tothe  senders.  That's the only way anyone is going to be made aware ofthe possible "problem" with their SPF policy.But if you do want to change your forwarding policy, it wouldn't be as
difficult  as  implementing SRS or any of that. You could write a veryeasy  script to change the envelope sender to the local user. It wouldact  like  a  client-side FW: in that respect. The bounces may stay on
your  server,  which  isn't  "full service." But it gets the job done.Well-documented,  this  would  be  a  perfectly  reasonable option forusers.I have never, not once, ever, had any issues rejecting on SPF. I catch
thousands  of  messages  a  day.  There  are no false positives. Therecannot be, unless your SPF library has bugs.--SandySanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
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Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-05 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Perfectly legit email - my spf recs are perfect etc.

No,  it's  *not*  legit!  Domain  owners set SPF policies that dictate
legitimacy.  This  is  their  right.  SMTP  server  owners respect SPF
policies. This is my obligation. If Adelphia sets a strict SPF policy,
and  SurfGlobal respects it, so what? Don't assume that just because a
user  thinks  their  mail  should  go  through,  that  the  mail looks
"uncontroversial," that the user is right.

If  a  domain  owner  sets  a policy that says, "Mail with an envelope
sender of @example.com must only come from these servers," sure, maybe
that  policy  will  prove unworkable later on. Maybe they didn't think
enough  about server-level redirection (unlikely, since Adelphia isn't
exactly  a  tiny  company).  Maybe  they'll change their policies once
users  start  getting  their  mail rejected (possible, with sufficient
outcry).  But  this all isn't your problem. If you're originating mail
that  fails the domain owner's policy, what's the big surprise that it
gets bounced? I sure as heck would hope that it got bounced, if I were
the  domain  owner!  My  users  don't  have  the  right  to  have this
restriction  completely  ignored,  though they may rightly dispute the
resultant rejections.

Your  MTA  breaks the policy with its built-in forwarding function, so
if  you  don't  want  to  change  your  forwarding  functionality, put
together  a  nice helpfile on your forwarding page (just like the kind
of  thing  you  may have put together to inform people that they can't
forward  to  AOL)  that  warns them that the forwarded messages may be
bounced  back to the senders if the senders have restrictive policies.
It shouldn't be difficult to articulate in userspeak: "If some of your
friends or associates' ISPs allow them to send mail only _directly_ to
other  addresses,  you won't be able to 'relay' or 'zig-zag' that mail
through  your  Mad  River  Access  account  to  the final destination.
Restrictions  like  this  are placed by your friend's ISP or employer,
not  by  MRA! We'd be very happy to forward the mail, but your friends
aren't allowed to use this service."

Recommend  that  they keep a copy on your server as a fallback against
such  situations  (aging  these  out,  of  course, if it's otherwise a
global  forward).  *Let* the SPF failures keep getting bounced back to
the  senders.  That's the only way anyone is going to be made aware of
the possible "problem" with their SPF policy.

But if you do want to change your forwarding policy, it wouldn't be as
difficult  as  implementing SRS or any of that. You could write a very
easy  script to change the envelope sender to the local user. It would
act  like  a  client-side FW: in that respect. The bounces may stay on
your  server,  which  isn't  "full service." But it gets the job done.
Well-documented,  this  would  be  a  perfectly  reasonable option for
users.

I have never, not once, ever, had any issues rejecting on SPF. I catch
thousands  of  messages  a  day.  There  are no false positives. There
cannot be, unless your SPF library has bugs.

--Sandy




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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread george kulman
Hear hear.

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 4:36 PM
> To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
> Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -
> 
> Someone could write a plug-in or Declude could be modified to handle this,
> or IMail could be modified to handle this (and then Declude would probably
> need to be updated to handle what IMail changed).
> 
> Why implement a work around in a standards compliant platform in order to
> deal with a flawed mechanism in use at another provider, when that
> mechanism is rare?  I would prefer that SPF just disappeared.  You will
> probably spend less time telling your client that their destination server
> has issues that you can't fix and that they should take it up with them.
> It is not your, my, nor anyone else's responsibility to implement SRS in
> the current framework.
> 
> SRS isn't a an RFC standard, in fact according to that page that you
> provided, it seems that they are moving towards the "SUBMITTER" parameter.
> Maybe people should have thought about these issues before rushing to
> support SPF in the first place?
> 
> SPF, in it's current form, will die.  Just give it time.  The more support
> that you give for it, the more resistance to change will exist.and the
> longer it will take for it to die.  The implementation of SPF was always
> severely flawed, and two years later, there has been hardly any progress
> at fixing those issues, and there are now several competing sender
> validation mechanisms, all of which are flawed in one way or another.  The
> technology is all ridiculously short-sighted.  It's a problem and not a
> solution.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
> Nick Hayer wrote:
> 
>   Matt wrote:
> 
>   Real-world issues include working around bad implementation,
> such as surfglobal.net not configuring their server to reject messages
> that fail SPF.
> 
> 
>   SRS is a work around - and I'm simply asking if anyone has
> implemented it on an Imail/Declude platform. Kindly stay on topic  I
> am aware of your feelings about SPF - all I'm doing is working out a
> solution with what is in place - an MTA bouncing my legit email.
> 
> 
> 
>   I suggest you tell your customer that they can't forward
their
> E-mail reliably unless surfglobal.net removes their SPF restrictions, and
> there is nothing that you can do about it.
> 
> 
>   Should I stamp my feet and make a face when I tell them that?  :)
> 
>   I can simply ask SurfGlobal to accept me as a trusted sender - but I
> am trying to avoid that via SRS - so I will not have to make that call or
> any others.
> 
>   -Nick
> 


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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread Matt




Someone could write a plug-in or Declude could be modified to handle
this, or IMail could be modified to handle this (and then Declude would
probably need to be updated to handle what IMail changed).

Why implement a work around in a standards compliant platform in order
to deal with a flawed mechanism in use at another provider, when that
mechanism is rare?  I would prefer that SPF just disappeared.  You will
probably spend less time telling your client that their destination
server has issues that you can't fix and that they should take it up
with them.  It is not your, my, nor anyone else's responsibility to
implement SRS in the current framework.

SRS isn't a an RFC standard, in fact according to that page that you
provided, it seems that they are moving towards the "SUBMITTER"
parameter.  Maybe people should have thought about these issues before
rushing to support SPF in the first place?

SPF, in it's current form, will die.  Just give it time.  The more
support that you give for it, the more resistance to change will
exist.and the longer it will take for it to die.  The implementation of
SPF was always severely flawed, and two years later, there has been
hardly any progress at fixing those issues, and there are now several
competing sender validation mechanisms, all of which are flawed in one
way or another.  The technology is all ridiculously short-sighted. 
It's a problem and not a solution.

Matt



Nick Hayer wrote:

  
  
Matt wrote:
  

Real-world issues include working around bad implementation, such as
surfglobal.net not configuring their server to reject messages that
fail SPF.
  
SRS is a work around - and I'm simply asking if anyone has implemented
it on an Imail/Declude platform. Kindly stay on topic  I am aware
of your feelings about SPF - all I'm doing is working out a solution
with what is in place - an MTA bouncing my legit email.
  
I suggest you tell your customer that they can't forward their E-mail
reliably unless surfglobal.net removes their SPF restrictions, and
there is nothing that you can do about it.
  
Should I stamp my feet and make a face when I tell them that?  :)
  
I can simply ask SurfGlobal to accept me as a trusted sender - but I am
trying to avoid that via SRS - so I will not have to make that call or
any others.
  
-Nick





RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread John T \(Lists\)









I was not referring to anything you are
doing, I was referring to the recipient domain doing a rejection based upon a
SPF fail.

 



John T

eServices For You

 

"Seek, and ye shall
find!"



 



-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Hayer
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 12:27 PM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail]
spf breaks email forwarding -

 

The problem is not anything I am doing - it with SPF
itself. By design forwarded email will bounce if the receiving MTA is configed
that way. Even if I whitelist the emails they will bounce...

Let me explain - 
@Adelphia.net send an email to @greenmountainhealth.com
which is an alias on my server that forwards to @surfglobal.net
SurfGlobal will bounce the email because it failed Adelphia's SPF.
Perfectly legit email - my spf recs are perfect etc. The solution is SRS -
otherwise forwarding is dead 

-Nick


John T (Lists) wrote: 

I think the underlying problem as has been discussed on this list is that anSPF FAIL should not be relied upon as an outright rejection, rather used aspart of a weighting system. John TeServices For You "Seek, and ye shall find!"   

-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nick HayerSent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 11:40 AMTo: Declude.JunkMail@declude.comSubject: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding - Email customers that forward through me are getting their email bouncedbecause of the original sending domain's spf policy.  I understand thisdelima is addressed with "Sender Rewriting Scheme"http://www.openspf.org/srs.html Does anyone have a solution to this w/Declude & Imail? Thanks -Nick---This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list.  Tounsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], andtype "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail".  The archives can be foundat http://www.mail-archive.com.    

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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread Nick Hayer




Matt wrote:

  
Real-world issues include working around bad implementation, such as
surfglobal.net not configuring their server to reject messages that
fail SPF.

SRS is a work around - and I'm simply asking if anyone has implemented
it on an Imail/Declude platform. Kindly stay on topic  I am aware
of your feelings about SPF - all I'm doing is working out a solution
with what is in place - an MTA bouncing my legit email.

I suggest you tell your customer that they can't forward their E-mail
reliably unless surfglobal.net removes their SPF restrictions, and
there is nothing that you can do about it.

Should I stamp my feet and make a face when I tell them that?  :)

I can simply ask SurfGlobal to accept me as a trusted sender - but I am
trying to avoid that via SRS - so I will not have to make that call or
any others.

-Nick




RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread george kulman
Nick,

Sorry about my last email.  I thought you were referring to outbound
forwarding, not inbound.

George

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Hayer
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 3:27 PM
> To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
> Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -
> 
> The problem is not anything I am doing - it with SPF itself. By design
> forwarded email will bounce if the receiving MTA is configed that way.
> Even if I whitelist the emails they will bounce...
> 
> Let me explain -
> @Adelphia.net send an email to @greenmountainhealth.com which
> is an alias on my server that forwards to @surfglobal.net
> SurfGlobal will bounce the email because it failed Adelphia's SPF.
> Perfectly legit email - my spf recs are perfect etc. The solution is SRS -
> otherwise forwarding is dead
> 
> -Nick
> 
> 
> John T (Lists) wrote:
> 
>   I think the underlying problem as has been discussed on this list is
> that an
>   SPF FAIL should not be relied upon as an outright rejection, rather
> used as
>   part of a weighting system.
> 
>   John T
>   eServices For You
> 
>   "Seek, and ye shall find!"
> 
> 
> 
>   -Original Message-
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> [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Hayer
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>   To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
>   Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -
> 
>   Email customers that forward through me are getting their
> email bounced
>   because of the original sending domain's spf policy.  I
> understand this
>   delima is addressed with "Sender Rewriting Scheme"
>   http://www.openspf.org/srs.html
> 
>   Does anyone have a solution to this w/Declude & Imail?
> 
>   Thanks
> 
>   -Nick
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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread george kulman
Nick,

What I've done, and I can't be sure its working, is to set up my client's
SPF records like this:

v=spf1 ip4:[my ip mx range] ip4:[client ip mx range] mx ~all

The range format is nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn/nn

I haven't had complaints about SPF rejects.

George


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> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -
> 
> Email customers that forward through me are getting their email bounced
> because of the original sending domain's spf policy.  I understand this
> delima is addressed with "Sender Rewriting Scheme"
> http://www.openspf.org/srs.html
> 
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> 
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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread Matt




Real-world issues include working around bad implementation, such as
surfglobal.net not configuring their server to reject messages that
fail SPF.

SPF has many real-world issues.  SRS is novel, but it is impractical
since no one supports it (that I am aware of), and it certainly won't
be globally available any time soon.

I suggest you tell your customer that they can't forward their E-mail
reliably unless surfglobal.net removes their SPF restrictions, and
there is nothing that you can do about it.

SPF is not a magic bullet.

Matt



Nick Hayer wrote:

  
The problem is not anything I am doing - it with SPF itself. By design
forwarded email will bounce if the receiving MTA is configed that way.
Even if I whitelist the emails they will bounce...
  
Let me explain - 
@Adelphia.net send an email to
@greenmountainhealth.com which is an alias on my server
that forwards to @surfglobal.net
SurfGlobal will bounce the email because it failed Adelphia's SPF.
Perfectly legit email - my spf recs are perfect etc. The solution is
SRS - otherwise forwarding is dead 
  
-Nick
  
  
John T (Lists) wrote:
  
I think the underlying problem as has been discussed on this list is that an
SPF FAIL should not be relied upon as an outright rejection, rather used as
part of a weighting system.

John T
eServices For You

"Seek, and ye shall find!"

  

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Email customers that forward through me are getting their email bounced
because of the original sending domain's spf policy.  I understand this
delima is addressed with "Sender Rewriting Scheme"
http://www.openspf.org/srs.html

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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread Nick Hayer




The problem is not anything I am doing - it with SPF itself. By design
forwarded email will bounce if the receiving MTA is configed that way.
Even if I whitelist the emails they will bounce...

Let me explain - 
@Adelphia.net send an email to
@greenmountainhealth.com which is an alias on my server
that forwards to @surfglobal.net
SurfGlobal will bounce the email because it failed Adelphia's SPF.
Perfectly legit email - my spf recs are perfect etc. The solution is
SRS - otherwise forwarding is dead 

-Nick


John T (Lists) wrote:

  I think the underlying problem as has been discussed on this list is that an
SPF FAIL should not be relied upon as an outright rejection, rather used as
part of a weighting system.

John T
eServices For You

"Seek, and ye shall find!"

  
  
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nick Hayer
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 11:40 AM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

Email customers that forward through me are getting their email bounced
because of the original sending domain's spf policy.  I understand this
delima is addressed with "Sender Rewriting Scheme"
http://www.openspf.org/srs.html

Does anyone have a solution to this w/Declude & Imail?

Thanks

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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread Matt
I'm not aware of any mail server that supports the Sender Rewriting 
Scheme.  It's certainly a fine idea, but the real issue is that the SPF 
implementation has issues with forwarded E-mail, and they are seeking to 
have mail servers correct their shortcoming.  It may be a very long-time 
in coming if it ever gets here at all.


IMO, real-world issues demand real-world solutions.

Matt



Nick Hayer wrote:

Email customers that forward through me are getting their email 
bounced because of the original sending domain's spf policy.  I 
understand this delima is addressed with "Sender Rewriting Scheme"  
http://www.openspf.org/srs.html


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Thanks

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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread John T \(Lists\)
I think the underlying problem as has been discussed on this list is that an
SPF FAIL should not be relied upon as an outright rejection, rather used as
part of a weighting system.

John T
eServices For You

"Seek, and ye shall find!"

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Hayer
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 11:40 AM
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> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -
> 
> Email customers that forward through me are getting their email bounced
> because of the original sending domain's spf policy.  I understand this
> delima is addressed with "Sender Rewriting Scheme"
> http://www.openspf.org/srs.html
> 
> Does anyone have a solution to this w/Declude & Imail?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Nick
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[Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-04 Thread Nick Hayer
Email customers that forward through me are getting their email bounced 
because of the original sending domain's spf policy.  I understand this 
delima is addressed with "Sender Rewriting Scheme"  
http://www.openspf.org/srs.html


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Thanks

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