Dnia 12.10.2021 o godz. 13:18:12 Jarland Donnell via mailop pisze: > Strong agreement here. Despite SRS I still think forwarding is one > of the major road blocks to progress with email systems.
No, it's the opposite. Things like SPF et al. are roadblocks to forwarding. Forwarding is a *very* useful technique, and what makes it more useful is that any MTA can just do it on its own, so to do forwarding you only need to have a MTA installed. To "pull" mail from other mailboxes you need additional tools, it's not a standard feature of any MTA, plus there is inherent insecurity of storing your credentials to other mailboxes on the server that does the "pull". I've always viewed "pull" as a far inferior solution to forwarding, a kind of a poor workaround provided by email providers who can't or don't want to - for various reasons - provide proper forwarding capabilities. "Hardwiring" a particular sender domain to a particular sending IP, like SPF does, is a *step back* in email technology - not a progress. A receiving system should always assume that messages *can* be forwarded and *can* come from different IPs than they were originally sent from. Don't concentrate on eradicating forwarding. Concentrate on eliminating things that *harm* forwarding. -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
