Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of special
Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Thu, 17 April 2014 15:31 UTC
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MH Michael Hammer (5304) wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Yoav Nir >> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 9:27 AM >> To: mrex@sap.com >> Cc: ietf@ietf.org >> Subject: Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of special >> >> >> On Apr 17, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> wrote: >> >>> Yoav Nir wrote: >>>> On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> wrote: >>>>> Right now, my MUA treats this as a message "From John R Levine >>>>> <johnl@taugh.com>". This means that any policy on the message >>>>> origination comes from looking solely at the taugh.com domain. We'll >>>>> pretend it has a DMARC policy. Herein lies the Yahoo/DMARC issue, >>>>> because unless your policy essentially stipulates that the IETF is >>>>> allowed to spoof you, we're stuck. >>>> Then perhaps this is what needs to change. John R Levine did not send >>>> you a message. He sent a message to the list. It is the list software >>>> that sent you a message. So perhaps the From field should have been >>>> ?From: IETF Mailing list on behalf of John R Levine <ietf@ietf.org>?. >>> But that is EXACTLY what the IETF mailing list exploder *IS* doing >>> exactly as it has been specified for ages: >>> >>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822#section-4.4.2 >>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822#appendix-A.2 >>> >>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.2 >>> >>> The "From:" field specifies the author(s) of the message, >>> that is, the mailbox(es) of the person(s) or system(s) responsible >>> for the writing of the message. The "Sender:" field specifies the >>> mailbox of the agent responsible for the actual transmission of the >>> message. >>> >>> From: Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> >>> Subject: Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of special >>> Errors-To: ietf-bounces@ietf.org >>> Sender: ietf <ietf-bounces@ietf.org> >>> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:50:30 +0300 >>> Message-ID: <B3467912-BDCA-4AE8-9939-60013DA99267@gmail.com> >>> To: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> >>> CC: "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org> >>> >>> >>> Something as old as Outlook 2003 will properly display a message that >>> is received with a "Sender:" as "<Sender> on behalf of <From>" >> A client as new as Mail.app on Mac OS X 10.9 does not. >> >> Obviously the Sender: field is not where the DMARC implementations use >> for checking policy. >> > Yoav, this is by design. > > There is no reliable way to determine the relationship between the Sender:field and the From: field from an authentication and authorization perspective at the domain level unless both are within the same domain space. Other than "I say so", how do we know that the Sender IS truly acting on behalf of the author in the From Well - if the originating system were to include To: in the signature, and it matched Sender: that would go a long way. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John R Levine
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Sabahattin Gucukoglu
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Scott Kitterman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John R Levine
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Sabahattin Gucukoglu
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Dave Crocker
- DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large ope… Robin H. Johnson
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Robin H. Johnson
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Robin H. Johnson
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… ned+ietf
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… S Moonesamy
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John R Levine
- RE: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Alex Ojeda
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Hector Santos
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Hector Santos
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… S Moonesamy
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… S Moonesamy
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John Levine
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Alessandro Vesely
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Hector Santos
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Hector Santos
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Doug Barton
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John Levine
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Doug Barton
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… ned+ietf
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Dave Crocker
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John R Levine
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John C Klensin
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John R Levine
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Sabahattin Gucukoglu
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John C Klensin
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Doug Barton
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John C Klensin
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… S Moonesamy
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- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Dave Crocker
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John C Klensin
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- RE: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… MH Michael Hammer (5304)
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… S Moonesamy
- Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a listad… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a li… Theodore Ts'o
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Dave Cridland
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: protecting the Internet from DMARC damage, wa… John Levine
- Re: Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a li… John Levine
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Dave Cridland
- Re: Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a li… John Levine
- RE: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… MH Michael Hammer (5304)
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Doug Barton
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Doug Barton
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Dave Crocker
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Murray S. Kucherawy
- RE: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… S Moonesamy
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Douglas Otis
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John Levine
- RE: protecting the Internet from DMARC damage, wa… MH Michael Hammer (5304)
- Re: Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a li… Brian E Carpenter
- RE: protecting the Internet from DMARC damage, wa… John R Levine
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Doug Barton
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Scott Kitterman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Scott Kitterman
- Re: protecting the Internet from DMARC damage, wa… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Dave Cridland
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Alessandro Vesely
- Re: Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a li… Michael Richardson
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… ned+ietf
- Re: Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a li… Theodore Ts'o
- Re: Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a li… John R Levine
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Dave Crocker
- Re: Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a li… Michael Richardson
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… S Moonesamy
- Re: Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a li… Theodore Ts'o
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… S Moonesamy
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Pete Resnick
- Re: Mailman 2.1.16 [DMARC: perspectives from a li… Brian E Carpenter
- RE: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… MH Michael Hammer (5304)
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Hector Santos
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Hector Santos
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Theodore Ts'o
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Sabahattin Gucukoglu
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Scott Kitterman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Theodore Ts'o
- Let's talk (was: DMARC: perspectives from a lista… S Moonesamy
- (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of special John R Levine
- RE: Let's talk (was: DMARC: perspectives from a l… MH Michael Hammer (5304)
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John R. Levine
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Pete Resnick
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Michael Richardson
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… John Levine
- RE: Let's talk (was: DMARC: perspectives from a l… S Moonesamy
- Re: Let's talk (was: DMARC: perspectives from a l… Dave Cridland
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Dave Cridland
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Dave Cridland
- RE: Let's talk (was: DMARC: perspectives from a l… MH Michael Hammer (5304)
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… John R Levine
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Miles Fidelman
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Pete Resnick
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… tytso
- Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large… Miles Fidelman
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Mark Andrews
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… John R Levine
- Re: (DMARC) How a whitelist would work, was Why m… John R Levine
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Pete Resnick
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Dave Cridland
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Yoav Nir
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… John R Levine
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Martin Rex
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Yoav Nir
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Dave Cridland
- RE: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… MH Michael Hammer (5304)
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Pete Resnick
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Miles Fidelman
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… ned+ietf
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Miles Fidelman
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Martin Rex
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… ned+ietf
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Douglas Otis
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Martin Rex
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… John Levine
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… John Levine
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Martin Rex
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… John Levine
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Michael Richardson
- Re: (DMARC) How a whitelist would work, was Why m… Michael Richardson
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… Michael Richardson
- Re: (DMARC) How a whitelist would work, was Why m… John R Levine
- Re: (DMARC) How a whitelist would work, was Why m… Miles Fidelman
- Re: (DMARC) Why mailing lists are only sort of sp… John Levine
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… John Levine
- Re: (DMARC) How a whitelist would work, was Why m… Yoav Nir
- Re: (DMARC) How a whitelist would work, was Why m… John R Levine
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… John R Levine
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Theodore Ts'o
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Douglas Otis
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… John R Levine
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Theodore Ts'o
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Murray S. Kucherawy
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… tytso
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- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… tytso
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Brian E Carpenter
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- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… Theodore Ts'o
- [off-off-track] Re: (DMARC) We've been here befor… Miles Fidelman
- Re: (DMARC) We've been here before, was Why maili… John Levine
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