Re: SPF-Compliant Spam

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 14:26 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:50 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
[...]
> > Where is the real problem?
> >
> > BTW I see "from mangling" as a conceptual necessary thing: Simply
> > because the forwarded mail is actually sent by your mail server.
[...]
> Forwarded mail isn't send from my server. It is sent from the sender.

It comes from the MTA on your host. So it *is* sent technically sent by your server[0]. And how do I (or better: my MTA) tell the difference to other spam mail?
And the time is (how long?) gone that "in dubio pro reo" can hold for email - especially for obviously forged email.

> I am relaying the message and it's not up to me to mangle the from

Do you have an open relay?
SCNR ..... See, open relays were quite common decades ago. They were (ab)used by spammers. Now we have blacklist of open relays (and other similar stuff).
It's time to fix the next hole which spammers may exploit/abuse/....

> address. The people who I farward to want the from address to be
> original.

Yes. And spammers wants that their mail also arrives. So what?

        Bernd

[0]: And I frankly don't care in what way your customers deliver their

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     mail to you - primarily since I can't validate it anyways.

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