Re: Can we please refuse mail to the list from list addresses?

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:19:44AM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:04:48PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>> ie. if joshua(at)postgresql(dot)org sent out email, it would deliver to his local MTA,
>>> with his local MTA connecting to postgresql.org MTA, who would then deliver it
>>> out to the world ...
>> Right. In the anti-spam world these days, very few people are doing reverse
>> matching (that is, very few people compare the reverse lookup of the From:
>> address to the domain of the MTA whence the mail is coming). It'll be
>> interesting to see what happens as SPF or DKIM -- the two loaded foot-guns
>> of the mail world -- take off, because then signing practices will start to
>> be important, and I suspect we'll find that mail not signed with the right
>> keys will all be classed as spam anyway. So then you'll _have_ to use the
>> domain's own mail servers, or things won't be signed correctly (because I
>> assume that we're not going to be sharing the server's private keys widely
>> :-)
>
> Yeah. I still don't see why you shouldn't be using the mailservers
> belonging to the domain you're sending from.. ;-)

That's silly. Do you have any idea how many mailservers I would have to
have configured? If I auth to my main smtp... my email should be
accepted, period.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake