On Mon, 2 May 2005, Andrew Gutkowski wrote:
I don't really care if it's appropriate or not. I care if we will be
receiving legitimate email from mail web servers which utilize this
practice. I consider ebay.com to be a legitimate web site. They are
not the only legitimate site out there which uses this either.
Legitimate, appropriate. Tomayto, tomahto.
What makes a site "legitimate"? Do you mean EBay is "legitimate" because
they're not a scam?
Is a "legitimate" site therefore allowed to do anything it wants? To me,
even in the absence of SPF, if a site originates mail with an
envelope-sender domain it doesn't serve, it's acting inappropriately,
which makes it illegitimate.
Yes, many sites do this. Well-designed sites do not.