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Re: AOL checking Sender-ID?

2005-03-01 06:45:01
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Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
| My users have been getting a raft of mail rejected by AOL, with the
reject
| referencing the following URL:
|
| http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rlyfa.html
|
| The From address *is* properly formatted.  However, the rejected messages
| are forwards of jokes and such where the From would not pass a sender-ID
| check that (stupidly and incorrectly) uses their SPFv1 record.  They also
| reject email that has no From at all.  I'll do some more experiments.
|

Thanx for this Stuart. Right on time too. I have been looking for info
on the potential consequences of misuse of spfv1 records for Sender-ID.

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Chuck Mead <csm(_at_)redhat(_dot_)com>
Instructor II (and resident Postfix bigot), GLS
Disclaimer: "It's Thursday and my name is Locutus of B0rk!"
Addendum: "Bwahahaha! Fire up the orbital mind-control lasers!"

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