On Monday 27 August 2007 21:54, Marc Perkel wrote: > Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > SPF does not in itself break email forwarding. SPF tells MTAs where mail > > with certain senders may originate from. It's their job to know if the > > recipient forwards mail from the connecting host. It can be tricky, but > > it's not impossible in principle. Applying SPF without thinking is > > incompetent and will cause false positives. > > Yes it does break email forwarding because if you have restrictive SPF > and it gets forwarded then the forwarding server isn't a valid server. > Thus if the receiving server enforces SPF rules then it bounces the > forwared message.
That's precisely "applying SPF without thinking". Anyone who does that should
be fired, nuked or something worse.
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