Hi Jeffrey,
There's a whitelist for those people (ebay and paypal also do this)
for the interim - in the future, they'll be expected to re-write their
headers to be SPF and CID compliant.
Kind Regards,
Chris Drake
Monday, July 12, 2004, 3:11:38 AM, you wrote:
JG> A number of businesses will "legitimately" counterfeit mail from their
JG> customers.
JG> One example is Federal Express which may send email to the recipient of
JG> a package
JG> on "behalf of" and forged in the name of the customer sending the
JG> package.
JG> Other sorts of services routinely send out "invitations" or the like in
JG> the name (and address) of the user.
JG> Now I'm sure that most of us agree that that is a bad practice that
JG> will have to come to an end. But has anyone had any luck contacting
JG> such sites and persuading them to change their policies?
JG> I have a client who regularly uses FedEx for shipping. While I can
JG> certainly add
JG> something like
JG> ?a:fedex-outgoing-servers/24
JG> to my client's SPF record, I would prefer not to do so.
JG> -j