Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Sun, 02 April 2023 17:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows
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On Fri 31/Mar/2023 18:16:28 +0200 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On March 31, 2023 11:06:37 AM UTC, Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> wrote:
>>On Fri 31/Mar/2023 02:41:19 +0200 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 8:41 PM Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Does that mean that instead of "non-transactional mail flows" we could say
>>>> "mail flows involving decades old software"?
>>> 
>>> If you're going to put that label on MLMs, we need to add it to MTAs too.
>>> Oh and most of the protocols we're talking about.
>>> 
>>> This is a pretty deep rabbit hole.
>>
>> Agreed.  Yet, did you notice, for example, the steady decrease of X-MIME-Autoconverted breakage cases?  The hype on security sped up software upgrading quite noticeably.
>
> Yes, but it didn't actively make the software less useful, so it's not really relevant to this case.


Eh?  Some auto-conversion filters were implemented by rather elegant filters 
able to decode and/or encode on the fly based on peer's capabilities.  That 
stuff became less useful, if that's what you mean...


Best
Ale
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