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"Refer a friend" incompatible with SPF

Author: R.Odom (20 Oct 07 2:33pm)

Just tried to send a referral from http://www.projecthoneypot.org/refer_a_friend.php but got a bounce due to SPF. My domain's SPF record specifies IPs which may send e-mail for it, and has "-all" to disallow any others.

Because the "refer a friend" sets my address as the "From:" address, but it isn't sent from one of my servers, any site that does SPF checking should bounce it.

Adding a "Sender:" to be a projecthoneypot.org address will probably cure this.

Regards,

Russ

Re: "Refer a friend" incompatible with SPF

Author: M.Prince (23 Oct 07 1:17am)

Good catch.

We fixed this by adding a SENDER header to the refer-a-friend emails.

Thanks for pointing it out.