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On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 07:49:45AM -0500, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> For the most part, this can be done without any significant impact on your |
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> day to day gentoo.org email lives. However, the one (major) change will be |
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> that devs would be required to use asmtp on dev.gentoo.org rather than |
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> sending from a non-gentoo.org smtp server. |
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One requirement, is a way for each developer that does use a local SMTP |
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server having a reasonable transparent way of doing all of this. As an |
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example, I've got my qmail custom-tweaked to only start bunches of |
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outgoing mail every 2 minutes, not just as needed. |
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The general solution missing is a way to tell our personal mail servers |
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to relay via the Gentoo SMTP servers based on the From address. My |
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laptop MTA already contacts my home server with SMTP AUTH (after SMTP |
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STARTTLS) and relays mail thru it for centralized purposes. So asmtp |
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would be used, but by our MTAs, and not us directly. |
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This still doesn't solve the existing problem of outgoing SMTP beyond |
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the ISP being blocked in the case of some developers (other than |
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tunneling SMTP over SSH). |
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> We'd also have to change the way .forwards work a bit, but that's largely |
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> behind the scenes -- you'd still be able to forward all your mail on to |
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> another address. The only change would be the envelope sender would now be |
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> changed at the time of forwarding whereas currently it is preserved.[2] |
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The loss of envelope sender at forwarding time is the main reason I |
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object to SPF. The 'solution' of SRS is not as useful as it's made out |
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to be, because for it to work properly, every forwarder along the way |
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needs to support reversing the SRS rewriting function, otherwise the |
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bounce may end up in the wrong place. Additionally, some people use the |
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original envelope sender for various sorts of mail filtering/sorting |
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(via procmail). |
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