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Re: [ietf-smtp] MTS-STS validation when MX host points to a CNAME, violating RFC 2181 § 10.3

Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Tue, 06 April 2021 20:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] MTS-STS validation when MX host points to a CNAME, violating RFC 2181 § 10.3
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On Tuesday 6 April 2021 22:04:48 CEST, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote:
> I believe O365 clients of *paid* services could argue this is a 
> breach of the contract. A client wants to deliver a message to 
> user@example.com. Sending MTA misleadingly says: Receiving MTA 
> of user@example.com has the problem A (MTA-STS validation 
> failed), that's why we can't provide you a service you paid for. 
> If that's not the case (and I suppose it's not: RFC8461, section 
> 4.1 defines MX host Validation by matching MX record *name* 
> against MTA-STS policy; the end).

Look it up and quote chapter and verse, please. I don't see anything of the 
kind. I do see wording in "my" enterprise documentation that IMO suggests a 
required ability to send to working sites, but nothing that requires 
Microsoft to provide a correct analysis of what is broken at sites outside 
Microsoft's control.

Arnt

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