Re: more on starttls, gnutls-cli and using tls for mail

[David Engster]

Tim Cross writes:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:21 PM, David Engster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Tim Cross writes:
>>> Is there any technical reason that requires this? I frequently use
>>> authenticated smtp, but just auithenticate as one user and send email
>
>>> with from/return addresses of different users with no problems.
>>
>> Then you've been lucky. See
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>
> As I understood it, SPF is domain/host based, not individual user
> based.

Correct. I thought we were talking about the general case why it makes
sense to choose different SMTP hosts dependending on the FROM
address. As long as you're using the same domain, SPF is not an issue,
indeed.

-David