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Re: Forwading/Redirecting: The problem as I see it....

2005-07-08 10:23:15
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Julian Mehnle wrote:

That is not very useful, because the forwarder can have many MTAs -
all with different HELOs.  And the set is subject to change.

Whitelisting can include wildcards, like *.mailout.forwarder.com or even 
*.forwarder.com.

And SPF already has the machinery for that and more.  Why not use it?
True, it is not a MAIL FROM identity, but it is a "virtual" MAIL FROM
identity - the one that would be used if MAIL FROM were rewritten.

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