[RFCI-Discuss] DSN listing of secureserver.net

[Alan Brown]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:11:18PM -0400, Alan Brown wrote:
>
> > SPF checks are supposed to be based on the envelope sender address, not
> > the source IP address or the EHLO.
>
> This is not true.

I just checked, you're right, but ONLY in the case of null sender:

HELO tests

For an empty Return-Path as used in error messages and other
auto-replies SPF checks the HELO-identity. Actually it checks an
artificial postmaster at mail.example.org address for a HELO or EHLO
mail.example.org.

> I am not going to comment on the rest of your remarks.

You don't need to, however the fact remains that in this case your
submission was rejected because it was incorrect.



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