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Re: [Bimi] MUA Evaluation of BIMI

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 14 March 2022 16:43 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bimi] MUA Evaluation of BIMI
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It appears that Dave Crocker  <dcrocker@bbiw.net> said:
>In other words, as an end-to-end service, BIMI really should NOT simply 
>defer the question of MTA/MDA/MUA interaction as trust as something left 
>to "the user of the MUA to determine".

Since BIMI is about marketing, if people want to show logos, what the heck, why not.

If the question is that they might show logos by mistake on malicious mail, why is that
mail even in the inbox?  The MUA is way too late for that kind of defense.

R's,
John

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