SPF and forwarding (was: Microsoft takes over British Telecom)

"Peter J. Holzer" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2011-10-23 14:43:00 -0700, Steve Atkins wrote:
> Mail forwarding is one common cause of failure. If you're sending mail
> to someone at @ieee.org and they forward it on to their @aol.com
> account, and you and AOL decide between you to enforce SPF -all then
> that mail will be undeliverable - and there's no way either you or AOL
> can predict that.

Actually, I can because I told ieee.org to forward my mail to aol.com
and I know that I enabled SPF for my aol.com address. There is nothing
unpredictable about that - I control both sides of the forwarding.

What AOL has to predict is that some of their customers may want to
forward from another mail address to their AOL mailbox and provide a way
to exempt specific sender IP addresses from SPF checks.

	hp


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