Re: Customize the bounce message

"alan" <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:44:04 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 15:53 16/12/2017  Saturday, David Jones wrote:
>On 12/16/2017 05:43 AM, alan wrote:
>>At 23:07 15/12/2017  Friday, David Jones via spf-devel wrote:
>>>Would it be possible to add a feature to allow for custom text to be add=
ed the bounce message?  I would like to make it clear when rejecting for pe=
rmerror that the sender should contact their own mail admins or tech suppor=
t and that the problem is on their end.
>>>
>>>Now that I am rejecting on permerrors and hard fails like the sending do=
main specified with "-all", senders are forwarding the bounce message to my=
 users via other mailboxes and asking us what is going on.
>>that particular example is not the senders problem but the receivers
>
>I didn't mean automated forwarding.  I meant they are now manually forward=
ing the bounce message caused by an SPF permerror to say a gmail.com addres=
s of theirs, then forwarding it to the original recipient saying "Why did y=
ou bounce my original email?  My last email a  couple of days ago went thro=
ugh fine."  I would like for the bounce message to tell the original sender=
 to forward this to their own mail sysadmin like the openspf.net link says =
to do.

sorry my mis-read entirely



>>if one of your users is directing people to mail him via a forwarder that=
 dosn't SRS rewrite the envelope
>>then he must let you know to turn off spf checking for mail to him or mai=
l from that forwarders ip(s)
>>or both when in tandem
>
>Also, I am not talking about SPF fails that would result from forwarding w=
ithout SRS.  I am only talking about SPF permerrors that are caused by the =
original envelope-from domain having a misconfigured/bad syntax/duplicate r=
ecord/etc.

yeah I get that now I permerr reject too
(except for this and a few other email troubleshooting related aliases)

its the only way they will learn and no spf is better than clueless spf=20
(as if the admin is clueless I have to assume he's not monitoring for/kicki=
ng spamming users either)




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>David Jones