Re: mailing lists are complicated, was Email explained from first principles

Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smtp
Organization Brandenburg InternetWorking
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/29/2021 7:23 AM, John R Levine wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2021, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
>> ARC is a completely different thing.  It introduces a third party, the 
>> sender, which modifies the message header in such a way to induce 
>> receivers to accept a message even if it fails DMARC.  Semantically, 
>> it is very similar to Dave's Use of the Sender Header Field.
> 
> Ho, it is really nothing like that.  It provides log info to so that the 
> final recipient can retroactively do filtering that the intermediate 
> hosts didn't.  It is true that you do have to know which intermediate 
> hosts might plausibly do that, but small systems rarely get ARC'ed mail 
> from more than a handful of places.
> 
>> I see no conflict between these two methods.

Me either.

One says "Here is the original author information."

The other says "1) When I got this message, here is how the DMARC 
evaluation came out, and you can trust these results if you trust me; 
and 2) Here is the collaborative handling sequence since that evaluation"

Very different semantics.


d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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