Email Forwards and SPF, SRS (Afrihost)

[boyequal]

I'm hosting a small website for a conference on Afrihost. This conference has its own domain. I have set up a bunch of email forwarders on this domain, as some of the organisers/speakers do not want a separate email account to check. However, this is now causing problems.

Some of the receiving email servers are rejecting some of the forwarded email addresses due to the SPF record from the sender not stating authority for Afrihost's email server. A legitimate thing to combat spam.

Is there a way to enable SRS to indicate that the email was forwarded? I cannot find anything in the cPanel. I have emailed Afrihost support, and the agent's suggestion was to ask the sender's organisation to add the Afrihost server to the SPF record... (as if I can do that for all companies over the world...)

If no SRS, is there any other way to explicitly change the mail envelope?

Thanks!

 

[NullHypothesis]

There are no configuration options within cPanel for SRS (only SPF). To enable SRS on a cPanel server you'll need root access to edit exim.conf.

 

[boyequal]

There are no configuration options within cPanel for SRS (only SPF). To enable SRS on a cPanel server you'll need root access to edit exim.conf.

Figured as much.

Well... in the meanwhile... Since AfriHOST doesn't seem interested in proper HOSTING anymore

I'm now piping all emails to a script, rewriting the header manually and sending it along again. Messy, but it works.

 

[Murmaider]

That seems really silly, SRS is now part of the Exim Basic Configuration.
It's 1 click to enable it and then click Save.

 

[boyequal]

That seems really silly, SRS is now part of the Exim Basic Configuration.
It's 1 click to enable it and then click Save.

Well, Afrihost told me:

>> Is it possible to enable SRS for the email forwarding to prevent this?

We do not allow the SRS support in our servers.

I think the agent doesn't even know what SRS is :wtf:

PS: Do the Afripeeps check this forum?

 

[AfriGuy]

Well, Afrihost told me:



I think the agent doesn't even know what SRS is :wtf:

PS: Do the Afripeeps check this forum?

Hi

Sorry for only jumping on this thread now, they don't always appear in searches for some reason.
We're always available via PM though

Happy to check this out for you, PM me the domain and ticket ref# and I can get things going.

 

[Murmaider]

Well, Afrihost told me:



I think the agent doesn't even know what SRS is :wtf:

PS: Do the Afripeeps check this forum?

SRS is a doubled edged sword though and in all honesty, you are probably better off having it switched off.
The problem with SRS is that it will rewrite the address to something random@ your domain name. This becomes an issue because when the mail is sent out, sender verify will fail because this random string @ your domain name does not exist as valid mailbox.

The only way around this is to send your default delivery to a catchall account or to blackhole it so that anything @ your domain name passes sender verify.