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Re: [spf-discuss] Re: "pretend" MAIL FROM

2007-03-13 07:23:38
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, John A. Martin wrote:

    Scott> On Monday 12 March 2007 18:52, John A. Martin wrote:
    >> Would someone please explain precisely what is meant at
    >> <http://www.openspf.org/Best_Practices/Forwarding> by the
    >> following and perhaps provide an illustrative example?
    >>
    >> If your implementation allows it, also check SPF for a
    >> "pretend" MAIL FROM that your forwarder could use. This
    >> verifies that the forwarded mail really came from your trusted
    >> forwarder.
    >>

The explanation in pymilter says:

# Connections that get an SPF pass for a pretend MAIL FROM of 
# postmaster(_at_)sometrustedforwarder(_dot_)com skip SPF checks for the real 
MAIL FROM.
# This is for non-SRS forwarders.  It is a simple implementation that
# is inefficient for more than a few entries.
trusted_forwarder = careerbuilder.com

And that is a real life example used by the HR person at a client.  
Careerbuilder forwards email from job applicants without changing the
mail from.

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