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I am seriously considering implementing and supporting SPF[1] on our mail |
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servers. SPF is an emerging standard designed to verify the FROM header on |
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all incoming mails. This helps protect against forged headers among other |
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things. |
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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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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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So, at this point, I'm looking for comments, questions and criticisms about |
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this proposed change. |
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--kurt |
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[1]http://spf.pobox.com |
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[2]http://spf.pobox.com/faq.html |
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