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SPF etcSPF etcPosted Apr 17, 2008 7:26 UTC (Thu) by odie (guest, #738)In reply to: Backscatter increase clogs inboxes by dcovey Parent article: Backscatter increase clogs inboxes
I run into two problems with SPF (haven't looked at DKIM). First, I often send mail from my laptop, connected to the internet with various means. Many networks have firewalls blocking outgoing connections to port 25, meaning I have to relay my mail via their SMTP gateway instead of my own. I suppose I could tunnel all my outgoing mail to my SMTP server via ssh or some such, but I have several less technical users of my domain who also are heavy laptop users, or use my domains for personal mails when at work etc. Secondly, I run a bunch of mailing lists. This means a lot of mail from various senders is relayed by my server. The official solution to this is to rewrite the sender in the mail headers, which seems like a terrible kludge. A mechanism whereby I could insert a server signature in the headers indicating that I have OK'd the sender would be a better solution. SPF just doesn't fit in with how SMTP works.
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SPF etc Posted Apr 17, 2008 9:11 UTC (Thu) by cras (guest, #7000) [Link] Submission port (587, RFC 2476) helps with your first problem. It's not usually blocked by firewalls. I wish it would get better support from clients though.
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