[fetchmail]Re: Does SPF break fetchmail?

[Michelle Konzack]

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Am 2005-07-08 09:31:49, schrieb Neil Harkins:
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> Hi. I used fetchmail for a few projects over the past 10 years,
> and was curious how it deals with SPF (Sender Policy Framework,
> http://spf.pobox.com).=20
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> If fetchmail retrieves a remote message, then resubmits it locally=20
> on port 25 with the original sender on the envelope, those messages
> would be blocked if the local server is enforcing SPF, because the
> local machine's ip isn't listed as a valid sender for the domain
> which originally sent the mail. :(
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> I see in the fetchmail 5.0 feature list that:
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>  * Fetchmail can be told to fall back to delivering=20
>    via local sendmail if it can't open port 25.
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> Is there any way to make that the primary behavior
> instead of just a "fall-back"?
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> Then again, if the MTA handled piped mail similarly to mail=20
> received over port 25, by inserting the machine's default ip=20
> address, it still wouldn't work. Not sure if the MTAs do
> that or not...=20

It reject messages only, if you have forgotten to use the "invisible"
option in fetchmail, which prevent it to insert local "Receive:" Header

> Anyway, any thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated!
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> Thanks,
> -neil
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Greetings
Michelle

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