RE: Re: SRS for postfix ?

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Dick St.Peters wrote:

> Blum, Gabriel writes:
> > >> SRS for forwarding is only needed by forwarders with
> > clueless/powerless clients.
> > 
> > Agree, but unfortunately that's what plenty of big companies are,
> > specially those in non-tech industries.
> 
> It's not just big companies, nor is it just non-tech people.

... lots of irrelevant stuff about not everyone being an email expert ...

> If you're going to design a system for email - or for anything else -
> the first consideration always has to be that most people are and will
> remain clueless about how it works - just as we all are clueless about
> how most things we use every day work.

The email clueless people who know they are email clueless have no 
problem.  They don't check SPF and SPF is very friendly to them.

The problem comes when people who ought to know better throw in 
some system to reject on SPF fail without configuring for forwarders.

I believe the phrase is "knowing just enough to be dangerous".  *Those*
are the clueless idiots I have no sympathy for.  The doctors and
car mechanics are not the problem.  It is email admins - who ought to
know better - who are guilty of email mal-practice.  Not their users.

If it is an end user configured system - then it had better not provide
a reject on fail option unless it also provides some kind of forwarding
configuration.

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