FreeBSD mail forwarder and SPF

[RW]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:28:15 -0800
"Mark D. Foster" <mark at foster.cc> wrote:


> The solution is @ http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Forwarding
> If garga@ isn't following the recommended practice of whitelisting
> freebsd.org's MX servers then breakage results. That said,
> mx2.freebsd.org is NOT LISTED as an MX of freebsd.org, so maybe that
> is contributing to the problem.
> 


SPF doesn't care whether email is sent from an MX server.

mx2.freebsd.org is listed in the SPF record, but that doesn't really
matter much unless they implement the "Sender Rewriting Scheme" in
their forwarder. SRS should eliminate the rejection problem.