10 Sep
2004
10 Sep
'04
3:55 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:15:14PM -0500, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote a message of 37 lines which said:
Same thing applies for 'simple' forwarding via sendmails '~/.forward' mechanism. the mail server 'accepts' the mail from the original source, and then 're-sends' to the new destination. That re-send originates as the _forwarding_party_, WITH an 'envelope from' of that forwarding party,
Sorry, this is simply not true (sendmail, postfix, etc, always keep the original envelope from when forwarding).
An SPF check of the _immediate_ sender does *NOT* break forwarded mail.
Even SPF people say it: http://spf.pobox.com/faq.html#forwarding