RE: RFC 4408 Errata - PermError on invalid domains after macro expansion
"Murray S. Kucherawy" <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:43:21 -0700
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Kitterman [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 5:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [spf-discuss] RFC 4408 Errata - PermError on invalid domains after macro expansion > > RFC 4408 deliberately steered clear of trying to specify receiver policy > (there is only one exception to this in the RFC). The receiver policy > (reject/don't reject) is a matter for local decision based on local > policy, but specifying how to handle such a rejection if such an option > is chosen is perfectly appropriate in the RFC. It's also fine to reference RFC5321 and whatever the enhanced status codes one is to back up the assertion of the SMTP reply code and enhanced code one has to use when choosing to reject. They're both standards track.