"Frank Ellermann" reported:
Hannah Schroeter wrote:
I don't like those semantic games like calling .forward style
forwarding "spoofing".
It's shorter than the official STD 10 definitions of 251 + 551:
251 User not local; will forward to <forward-path>
This reply indicates that the receiver-SMTP knows the user's
mailbox is on another host and indicates the correct
forward-path to use in the future. Note that either the
host or user or both may be different. The receiver takes
responsibility for delivering the message.
...
Hmm interesting!
This is not the effect that many users of forwarding would expect / want.
They often regard the forward-path as:
1) Confidential and/or,
2) Subject to frequent change (Someone on this list reported that he forwards to
his client-of-the-week's site)
I wonder: Do those forwarders who re-use the same mail-from address use this 251
response? Are that RFC-literate?
Chris Haynes