Re: Mail forwarding issues and SPF

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On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 15:57 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 14:25:42 -0600,
>   Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Red Hat IT forwarded an issue to me today about a recipient of
> > @fedoraproject.org having an issue with addresses from @redhat.com.
> > The issue is that in forwarding email addresses we aren't rewriting
> > headers so it looks like we are sending redhat.com addresses from a
> > non Red Hat server. The suggested fix is to have procmail rewrite the
> > envelope for these to say soemthing like From
> > noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that SPF and similar filters can work.
> 
> That will break other things. SPF and forwarding don't go well together.
> If you really need to do it, there is supposed to a standard for rewriting
> the envelope sender address that could be used to forward bounces back
> to redhat.com via fedoraproject.org.
> The recipient could also relax the checks on their end and accept email
> from fedoraproject.org servers.

I just read that standard - it could be the single oddest thing I ever
read and I'm positive we do not want to implement it.

I like mdomsch's idea that @redhat.com should change from -all to ~all

-sv


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