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On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:15:14PM -0500, Robert Bonomi <[email protected]> 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
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