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Re: I RTFM but still have a simple ?

2004-04-26 08:30:32
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Alain Knaff wrote:

begin  Monday 26 April 2004 15:38, Daniel Taylor quote:
For domains with users that legitimately use forwarding services that do
not generate a valid (local to the forwarder) envelope from, simply
set ?all or ~all in the SPF record.

Should it really the sender's responsibility to care about forwarding?
Usually, forwarding has been set up by the _receiver_, and the sender
often has no way of knowing that adresses that he sends to might be
forwarded.

Daniel was not talking about *real* forwarders, but rather "sender
forwarders" that send mail in behalf of someone - like greeting card services
and the hospital baby picture mail I wrote about.  Services that
send mail in behalf of someone should *not* be using the authors
email as the sender email - but they do.  They *should* be using
their own domain for return path and handling bounces themselves.

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