Am 09.01.2012 22:07, schrieb Noel Jones:
> On 1/9/2012 1:24 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote:
>> Many people (me and most of this list included) reject impersonation
>> of the sender address unless it is on an encrypted submission port;
>> this is the norm rather than the exception nowadays.
> 
> Be aware this may reject some legit mail.

which?

> Feel free to do it as a
> local policy, just understand it's not 100% safe.

it is exactly as safe as a RBL

> Examples are web sites such as news sites "send article to a friend"
> and external calendar/reminder services.  Airlines used to do this
> with flight notices, but I think most of them have fixed it.  Some
> "greeting ecard" web sites; it's debatable if you want those anyway,
> but your users might.

in this case this is NOT legit mail, sites implementing this way
have to be rejected - a "greeting ecard" where you can enter
a e-mail-address which will be used as ENVELOPE sender is
badly broken

any web-application using a foreign ENVELOPE sender is badly broken



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