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Re: [spf-discuss] Yet another attempt to fix forwarding

2008-02-05 09:14:55
At 07:50 PM 2/4/2008 -0800, Michael Deutschmann wrote:

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, David MacQuigg wrote:
Big ESPs won't listen to us, but they will listen to their customers.
After a few thousand complaints, or even questions like - "Hey Mr. Yahoo,
how come all my forwarded mail goes into the [bulk] folder?  Why can't I
whitelist my forwarders?"

Or, "I want to consolidate my mail, at your mailstore for [whatever
reason], but [Other ISP] is refusing to do it due to some weird technical
problem they say is at your end.  Their explanation is at [URL], maybe you
can sort it out..."

After hearing that, they will eventually modify their whitelisting
option, so it works with a domain name, not necessarily a full address.

That's not the right direction.

I don't understand what you mean.  What I was talking about is a very common 
forwarding arrangement, one where the Recipient fills out a web form at 
<forwarder.org> to have all his mail currently addressed to 
<recipient(_at_)forwarder(_dot_)org> forwarded to his new MDA.  The problem was 
that the MDA (yahoo.com in my example) allowed whitelisting of mail from 
specific individual Senders, but not of all mail forwarded by <forwarder.org>.  
This is a common limitation I have seen at services like yahoo.com.

          |-------- Recipient's Network ---------|
     /
--> / --> Receiver/Forwarder ~~> MDA ==> Recipient
   /
 Border

Perhaps if you explain the situation you have in mind, using terms that 
everyone understands, I might be able to understand your proposed solution.

-- Dave


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