Re: [ietf-smtp] DKIM and DMARC, Email explained from first principles

Matthias Leisi <matthias@leisi.net> Wed, 26 May 2021 07:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] DKIM and DMARC, Email explained from first principles
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> 2) So you're left with building and maintaining your own reputation database.

That’s the sort of problem we are trying to solve as a collaborative, better scalable, solution at dnswl.org <http://dnswl.org/>. But uptake by users of positive domain reputation has been relatively poor so far, even though I believe it would be beneficial especially for small-ish sending and receiving systems.

— Matthias (with the dnswl.org <http://dnswl.org/> maintainer hat)