Re: pros and cons of RMX (Re: [Asrg] Declaration to the world)

[william@elan.net]

Ok, you're right - ietf are good with technology and set FROM in the mail 
transmission to mailing list (which actually causes some spam filters to 
think email is forged), but there are mail lists and forwarding systems 
that do not do this and set FROM to the original sender. 

On 7 Mar 2003, wayne wrote:

> In <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303062006490.2191-100000@sokol.elan.net> william@elan.net writes:
> 
> > How is this going to work for asrg@ietf.org email?
> > 
> > Lets say I run this code to check your dnsbl. Now you send email to asrg, 
> > responding to this post, my MTA receives it and goes to your domain 
> > specific dnsbl, it sees that you support it and checks ip address of the 
> > ietf mail server and that ip is not in your dnsbl, so your email is rejected.
> 
> Ah, the email that you are replying to didn't come from my domain, it
> came from ietf.org and and a From_ address of asrg@ietf.org.  If you
> had implemented the check, you would have found that ietf.org doesn't
> have a domain specific blacklist, and therefore you should accept
> email from asrg@ietf.org.
> 
> My message to the ASRG list was received by my machine just fine.
> 
> 
> > (Damn, And I really wanted to read your reply! :)
> 
> Yeah, sure you did.  ;->
> 
> 
> -wayne
> 
> 
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