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Re: [dmarc-ietf] Ticket #1 - SPF alignment

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 30 January 2021 21:29 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Ticket #1 - SPF alignment
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In article <20210130212339.447316D04763@ary.qy> you write:
>In article <CF0B307A-C83A-4FF9-BC03-9DE28362DF3A@bluepopcorn.net> you write:
>>The issue isn’t the existing use of HELO names, it’s how they could 
>>be (mis-)used. The fact that a message sender can put anything there 
>>makes HELO basically meaningless.
>
>This is DMARC -- the HELO domain has to match the header From: and there
>has to be an SPF record that validates it.
>
>The most plausible case is that it's a bounce messsage
>
> From: MAILER-DAEMON@mta27.foo.bar.example.com
>
>the MAIL FROM is null, HELO is mta27.foo.bar.example.com, and the SPF
>record for mta27.foo.bar.com says that IP is OK.

I wish I could type: ... for mta27.foo.bar.example.com says that the IP is OK.

>I don't feel strongly about whether to use the HELO name but it doesn't break anything.

R's,
John

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