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Re: Email forwarding w/o submission service

2004-08-21 07:24:11
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 04:02:08AM -0400, Barry Margolin wrote:
| 
| The FAQ says that SPF is intended to protect the envelope sender, not 
| the From: address.  However, AFAICT, my MUA (Mac OS X 10.3.5 Mail) 
| doesn't provide any way to specify the envelope sender; it has one 
| place to specify the Email Address for a mail account, and it uses this 
| as both the envelope sender and the From: address.  You can specify a 
| different username to be used with SMTP authentication, but this is 
| just a username, not an address (it shows up in a comment in the 
| Received: line that the SMTP server adds).  So do we need all the MUA 
| implementations to provide this additional setting?
| 

I have emailed the product manager for mac mail asking for a
separate return-path config under outgoing "server settings".