[fetchmail]Does SPF break fetchmail?

[James Knott]

Neil Harkins wrote:
> 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). 
> 
> If fetchmail retrieves a remote message, then resubmits it locally 
> 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. :(

I belief SPF looks at the originating host IP, not that of a host allong
the route, that handled the message.  For example, in looking at the
headers of your message, I can see that the originating IP is
192.190.237.112, which is not the address of my ISP or my IMAP server.