"Sender" email header - unprofessional = bad for Business
As part of a Zoho pilot I have set up a small business account.
Since this is a pilot for one department (for now) I do not have the power to change the MX record.
Forwarding from the corporate address to Zoho works fine, and so does sending (once I verified the ownership of my corporate email), except for one nasty wrinkle:
Zoho Mail sends my outgoing emails with From: me@mycompany.com [ this is GOOD ], and
Sender: me@zoho.com - this is NOT so good.
Many email clients ignore Sender header, but some, most notably MS Outlook and Hotmail use it to construct "From" field along the lines of:
"Sent by me@zoho.com on behalf of me@mycompany.com"
This is confusing and unprofessional. I cannot possibly move my colleagues to Zoho until their emails look like they come from them directly.
The original use case for "Sender" header as discussed during the writing of the RFC involved an admin sending a message on behalf of the boss, NOT identification of the email client.
Please advice. Thx!
~Andrey
P.S. Zoho also uses Return-Path header pointing at zoho accounts instead of the business accounts. This is not so good either ( causes potential lock-in and privacy issues).
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