Mail forwarding issues and SPF

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Philip Prindeville
<philipp at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 06/14/2010 02:25 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> Red Hat IT forwarded an issue to me today about a recipient of
>> @fedoraproject.org having an issue with addresses from @redhat.com.
>> The issue is that in forwarding email addresses we aren't rewriting
>> headers so it looks like we are sending redhat.com addresses from a
>> non Red Hat server. The suggested fix is to have procmail rewrite the
>> envelope for these to say soemthing like From
>> noreply at fedoraproject.org so that SPF and similar filters can work.
>>
>> I wanted to get some opinions on this
>>
>> http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Forwarding
>> http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0401/0970.html
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2220
>>
>>
>
> Here was why that bounced:
>
> Jun 14 14:25:59 mail mimedefang.pl[22579]: o5EKPrwm022834: 5.503 (*****) DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,L_WIN_CHARSET,SPF_NEUTRAL
>
>
> We really don't like windows-xxxx encodings.
>

Well I can't help you much. I supposedly am sending this from a linux
system. I think you will need to look at whitelisting
fedoraproject.org at the moment as it can not have an SPF record of
its own.



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