Re: [IETF] DMARC methods in mailman

Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Sun, 25 December 2016 18:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [IETF] DMARC methods in mailman
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 13:05:59 -0500
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> On Dec 25, 2016, at 6:11 AM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> A per-receiver setting is one extra step for new subscribers. That’s something I’d rather avoid.

More importantly, recipients don't always know whether they need anti-DMARC
armour or not, and are neither responsible for nor consulted on potential
changes in the receiving domain's policies.  Therefore, per-recipient policy
is unlikely to work well.

If message (subject and/or body) modification is a hard requirement, then
it seems that for now anti-DMARC measures are needed in the "From:" header.
FWIW, my view is that forgoing message modification is better than From
mangling.

The need for email origin authentication to specify that "Sender" preempts
"From" has been well understood for a long time before there there was DMARC.
If there is to be a non-broken replacement, it must correct this design error
and place the "burden" of dealing with that on any MUAs that fail to display
Sender (as e.g. from <sender> on behalf of <author>).

-- 
	Viktor.