Re: [ietf-822] a detour into SPF, was Mailing lists - assumptions

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> >Yes indeedy. Looks to me like bog-standard SRS. ...

> >At present draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis has this to say about the issue:
> >
> > o  Mediators can solve the problem by rewriting the "MAIL FROM" to be
> >    in their own domain.  This means mail rejected from the external
> >    mailbox will have to be forwarded back to the original sender by
> >    the forwarding service.  Various schemes to do this exist though
> >    they vary widely in complexity and resource requirements on the
> >    part of the mediator.
> >
> >Does anyone seriously think this provides the necessary guidance to an
> >autoforwarder developer/administrator faced with wholesale rejection of their
> >forwarded mail due to SPF? Because I certainly don't.

> Nobody brought it up in SPFBIS that I can recall.  SRS has been around
> for a decade, and I only see it in a few academic mail forwarders and
> one web host's mail gateway.  The problem that SRS solves evidently
> isn't one that people care enough about very much.

Well, I don't claim to speak for the Internet, but there's been a fair bit
of interest in the SRS support we provide in our product... And that's
from my perspective; I only hear about what people are using when they
have a problem setting it up, find a bug, etc.

				Ned