On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 11:46:53PM +0100, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:
> On 01/05/2024 22:42, The Doctor via Exim-users wrote:
> > What is external forwarding?
> >
> > Sound like something scary.
>
> My *guess* is:
>
> You mailed person A. A has their mails configured, at the MX for A,
> to be forwarded to B. You don't have control over that configuration;
> it is entirely A's choice. He wanted it to be done.
>
> But you have configured your system, probably in "SPF" terms, you
> say "any messages claiming to be from me *must* be be sent by *my* system.
> Any messages being sent by any other system are invalid, and should be rejected."
>
> The message is being sent onwards by A's MX to B's MX. it is being sent by
> A's MX, as far as B's MX is concerned.
>
> B's MX implements SPF, and does what you claim you wanted. It rejects the
> message, since the message did not arrive at that host directly from your MX.
>
>
>
> And thus, a traditional and useful feature of email handling has been broken.
Now that is totally assinine!
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> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
>
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