Auteur: W B Hacker Datum: Aan: exim users Onderwerp: Re: [exim] Mailing list trouble
David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 17:21 +0000, W B Hacker wrote:
>>
>> It is ALSO about whether the company is comfortable with you
>> appearing to originate traffic from a company *address* (implying
>> server, implying official business/company approval) .... when you
>> do NOT.
>>
>> Your employment can be terminated on that score alone in many of
>> the world's jurisdictions.
>
> Nonsense. Imagine he sends mail to one of my users, who happens to
> currently be working at a contractor at the same company and has
> forwarded his @infradead mail to his account at "work" since that's
> where he's spending most of his waking hours. Precisely the same
> thing will happen — the broken company mail server will reject the
> "invalid" message when it is quite correctly sent on to its intended
> destination.
>
In the case you cite, above, the 'Envelope-from' is NOT going to look
like it originated from 'the company' server.
It is possible - even probable - that the 'mailing list' that the OP has
set up DOES operate in such a manner as to (appear to) 'forge' an
Envelope-From.
In which case, his 'Mailing List' is misconfigured, not the company server.
> The company mail server is broken. Fix it, or if you can't fix it
> then just declare it broken and stop trying to use it.
>
Yes - he should probably stop trying to use ....it in the manner he is
using it...
But we don't know that it is 'broken'.... Not enough information.
The OP's post came 'From' what appears to be a personal <domain>.<tld>
and actual carriage via webmail login to a gmail MTA.
The actual 'company server' ID has been obfuscated.
