Re: Mailing lists - assumptions

Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:39:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat 19/Apr/2014 17:57:24 +0200 Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:49:06AM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
>>
>>> From: user+originatingdomain.example.com@dmark-remediation.mailing-list.org
>>>
>>> .... where dmark-remediation.mailing-list.org is an MX record to an
>>> automated bounce server that will explain to the user that they need
>>> to really send their e-mail to [email protected] via
>>> a 550 error.
>>
>> Oh well, it is easier, clearer, and safer to have
>>
>>    From: [email protected]
>>
>> and let submission servers issue that 550 directly.
> 
> The problem is that there might be some receiving servers that will
> try to see if the originatingdomain.example.com.INVALID is a valid
> domain address, and seeing that it isn't, might reject the e-mail on
> that basis.

Exactly.  Why is that a problem?  Upon rejection the user will notice
the ".INVALID" and remove it, just like he or she would have done if the
rejection had arrived from dmarc-remediation.  The latter could have
contained a pointer to an explanation page, which interested users may
also find with google.

Ale

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