[78194] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL scomp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vinny Abello)
Thu Feb 24 17:09:44 2005
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:02:23 -0500
To: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>, nanog@merit.org
From: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <b2e0b73a9734a7ae3882f51eab0a35ac@crocker.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 03:08 PM 2/24/2005, Matthew Crocker wrote:
>Due to AOL scomp and SPF we have stopped forwarding all together.
>Existing accounts are grandfathered and we are working on migrating them
>all to IMAP-SSL. ALL new accounts have to IMAP their mail from our
>servers. I get WAY too much junk from forwarded mail going to AOL. I
>also get way too many tech support calls about forwarded mail being
>rejected because of SPF
>
>-Matt
Forwarded mail shouldn't be rejected as a result of SPF if your mail server
is using SRS to rewrite the from addresses in the "mail from" part of the
SMTP transaction of the forwarded emails... as long as your SPF record
isn't messed up of course. :)
Vinny Abello
Network Engineer
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