Re: [Asrg] RFC5451 Re: who gets the report, was We really don't need

Ian Eiloart <iane@sussex.ac.uk> Tue, 09 February 2010 11:51 UTC

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--On 8 February 2010 15:14:39 -0500 Chris Lewis <clewis@nortel.com> wrote:

>> Are you talking about an internal destination for spam reports (e.g.
>> your IT group), or an external one (e.g. abuse@domain)?
>
> Either.  If you have an AR header you trust, there's no reason to refuse
> it giving you an external destination.  Question is, how do we tell it's
> trusted, or do we care (especially with a site that's not 5451 aware)?

Yes, we care. Most servers aren't going to add this information. Most of 
the time, it will be provided by the spammer. If clients are going to do 
something with the information, it must be trusted.

Could the MDA add a DKIM signature for the authentication results header?

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Ian Eiloart
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