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Re: AOL checking Sender-ID?

2005-03-01 10:24:52
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Carl Hutzler wrote:

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.

I will send you a note offlist on this. It is not senderID checking.

Yes, I did those additional experiments and came to that conclusion,
and posted the results.  I guess I should have waited until *after*
the experiments before posting.

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