Bug Report
Eion Robb
eion at robbmob.com
Thu Feb 22 21:03:28 EST 2018
Or we just add elb's mail server to the SPF
On 23 February 2018 at 13:11, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
> Richard Laager wrote:
> > On 02/22/2018 05:44 PM, Eion Robb wrote:
> > > Don't we have people who send email from the @pidgin.im
> > > email directly? Should we ~all instead?
> >
> > I'd much rather we routed all @pidgin.im mail through our servers. Even
> > with ~all, "direct" mail is still soft-failed, which likely adds points
> > in spam filters. Is there a compelling reason someone needs to send
> > @pidgin.im but not through rock/imperial?
>
> All of the @pidgin.im emails I send are routed through the MTA on my
> local machine, because that's how Unix email works. If there's a
> trivial way to send email "from" @pidgin.im through rock/imperial (but
> not email "from" other addresses, and without breaking local delivery)
> in Postfix, I'm happy to use it, but this is yet another spam
> "solution" that doesn't really do anything but break machines that are
> doing reasonable things -- without, of course, actually combatting
> spam in any meaningful way.
>
> Ethan
>
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