Re: IETF Policy on dogfood consumption or avoidance - SMTP version

[Jay Daley <[e-mail]>]

Hi

While there is not unanimous consensus, I think the mood is clearly to leave this as an operational decision.  In which case, taking into account the following recommendation ...

> On 17/12/2019, at 5:18 AM, Nick Hilliard <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Glen wrote on 16/12/2019 16:11:
>> /^[0-9.]+$/             550 RFC2821 violation
>> /^\[[0-9.]+\]$/         550 RFC2821 violation
>> In just seconds, I can easily change the messages, or remove the
>> rules, either with complete ease.
> 
> s/RFC2821 violation/policy violation/

… and the following technical comment … 

> On 17/12/2019, at 6:04 AM, Viktor Dukhovni <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 08:11:11AM -0800, Glen wrote:
> 
>> There is a configuration file, with two lines in it:
>> 
>> /^[0-9.]+$/             550 RFC2821 violation
>> /^\[[0-9.]+\]$/         550 RFC2821 violation
> 
> While the patterns look similar, the first one rejects non-compliant
> "EHLO 192.0.2.1" and similar dotted quads (or more generally some
> mixture of digits and dots), the second rejects RFC-compliant address
> literals.  So at least the second message should probably be different,
> if the rule is retained.



… the following has now changed from

	/^[0-9.]+$/             550 RFC2821 violation
	/^\[[0-9.]+\]$/         550 RFC2821 violation

to

	/^[0-9.]+$/             550 RFC2821 violation
	/^\[[0-9.]+\]$/         550 Policy violation


As to the question of data, we cannot say for certain that the rejected messages were all spam, but we have only received one complaint in 10 years and so we can reasonably assume this rule has not caused problems that need to be addressed.

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments or recommendations.

kind regards
Jay

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