JT Moree wrote:
The obvious one is what this thread is about. People making money
sending spam will go to the effort to follow these rules even if it
means rolling out new domains faster than they can be blacklisted. That
was predictable from day one, and the rest of the scheme is just
inconvenience for everyone else and it prevents mail from working as
designed with user-controlled forwarding.
some would argue that mail 'as designed' is broken already. Are you
talking about the type of forwarding where I can make it look like you
sent an email to someone else?
No, I'm talking about the kind of forwarding that lets you have accounts
in lots of places, which happens for lots of legitimate reasons, and
having all your email land in one convenient place that itself might
change from time to time. A college that permits alumni to keep their
student email address after their account is deactivated would be an
example, but there are also a lot of small organizations that want to
provide addresses in their domain and the users may not want to deal
with checking a large number of locations for new mail. There are also
times you want to send mail 'from' these accounts and the person
controlling the relevant DNS has no way to know where you are (nor is it
really any of their business...).
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Les Mikesell
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