On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:
I'm not sure I agree with this. There is a technical incompatibility
between the flawed initial assumptions of SPF and the long-established
practice of forwarding mail, but that doesn't mean that mail forwarding
is being abused. Why do you say that it's being abused?
Because I get 30000 forged messages per day that are indistinguishable
at the SMTP envelope level from forwarded (in your "change the RCPT only"
sense) messages. Versus < 100 real messages. And that is just a small 5
person domain.
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