Re: A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
What I'm not clear about is what happens when the mail is sent onwards by the 'smarthost' at Gandi. Does it change the envelope sender to Send an email to yourself and have a look at the headers. Some MTAs add received headers like "received by for ". On 14.01.23 19:10, Gerald Galster wrote:

Re: A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 14.01.23 11:02, Chris Green wrote: >I use postfix on my home server and deliver mail by connecting to my >hosting providers' "smart host" using authenticated SMTP. > >My home system's hostname is zbmc.eu but I don't use that domain in my >E-Mail address, I use isbd.co.uk which domain is hosted

Re: A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-14 Thread Gerald Galster
>> What I'm not clear about is what happens when the mail is sent onwards >> by the 'smarthost' at Gandi. Does it change the envelope sender to > > Send an email to yourself and have a look at the headers. > Some MTAs add received headers like "received by for ". I meant Return-Path or look a

Re: A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-14 Thread Gerald Galster
>> Given an email from ch...@isbd.co.uk, originating at zbmc.eu and sent >> via mail.gandi.net (authenticated smtp submission) to b...@server.com: >> >> - server.com sees the ip address of mail.gandi.net (incoming connection) >> - server.com querys DNS for ch...@isbd.co.uk (host -t txt isbd.co.uk)

Re: A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-14 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 05:03:15PM +0100, Gerald Galster wrote: > > However most of the time I use my hosting at gandi.net to send my > > E-Mail, so mail from ch...@isbd.co.uk originates on zbmc.eu, is > > transferred by authenticated SMTP to mail.gandi.net and is sent on > > from there to whatever

Re: A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-14 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 04:55:45PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 14.01.23 11:02, Chris Green wrote: > >I use postfix on my home server and deliver mail by connecting to my > >hosting providers' "smart host" using authenticated SMTP. > > > >My home system's hostname is zbmc.eu but I don'

Re: A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-14 Thread Gerald Galster
> However most of the time I use my hosting at gandi.net to send my > E-Mail, so mail from ch...@isbd.co.uk originates on zbmc.eu, is > transferred by authenticated SMTP to mail.gandi.net and is sent on > from there to whatever its destination is. > > As I understand it the SPF records for mail.ga

Re: A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-14 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 14.01.23 11:02, Chris Green wrote: I use postfix on my home server and deliver mail by connecting to my hosting providers' "smart host" using authenticated SMTP. My home system's hostname is zbmc.eu but I don't use that domain in my E-Mail address, I use isbd.co.uk which domain is hosted at o

A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-14 Thread Chris Green
I use postfix on my home server and deliver mail by connecting to my hosting providers' "smart host" using authenticated SMTP. My home system's hostname is zbmc.eu but I don't use that domain in my E-Mail address, I use isbd.co.uk which domain is hosted at one of my hosting providers (mythic-beast