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Re: [Asrg] Unintended consequence of SPF

2006-03-17 09:41:58
submission turns into an E-mail submission with a From: which is filled in
to look like a request from your own E-mail address.

I can't fathom why anyone would think that is a useful question. It 
is a practice that leads inevitably to bad outcomes.

Only if implemented by nitwits.  I have web sites that do more or less
the same thing, submit a request by e-mail, but I take care that the
mail can be delivered like it's supposed to.  

In this case, the problem is that the recipient system is using a
broken authentication scheme that rejects useful mail that it should
accept.  Fans of SPF keep trying to redefine SPF's failure cases to be
the fault of people who send mail in ways that SPF can't handle,
rather than as a failure of SPF.

R's,
John


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