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List:       qmail
Subject:    Re: SPF and Mailforwarding
From:       Jeff Dickens <jeff () m2 ! seamanpaper ! com>
Date:       2008-04-23 21:23:50
Message-ID: 480FA8E6.7030205 () m2 ! seamanpaper ! com
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See also http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Forwarding.

I got bit by this today as well.  Since I'm receiving the forwarded mail 
rather than doing the forwarding, I'll have to whitelist the (known) 
forwarding system before I turn SPFBEHAVIOR back up to 3.

Oliver Welter wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> today, I was confronted with a critical problem :(
>
> My qmail server hosts the domains xyz.com, the address info@xyz.com is 
> forwarded to a domain at another provider.
> A mail with a senders address of the GMX Mailservice hit this alias, 
> and was forwarded to the other provider. The mail was rejected by 
> them, because the gmx.net domain uses SPF and I am obviously not an 
> allowed origin for it.
>
> I know that this is a protocol immanent problem which was often 
> discussed, but I now urgently need some sort of workaround (Sender 
> rewriting?).
>
> I run netqmail with vpopmail, if this matters.
>
> regards
>
> Oliver
>
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