On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:18:50 -0500
Bill Cole wrote:

> Well, the actual *COMMIT TO TRUNK* 
> (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1816394&view=rev) uses
> whitelist_auth for 6 entities, which IMHO is a terrible idea for the
> reasons I noted in my prior message.

The original post talked about extending the existing
def_whitelist_from_spf entries, so it didn't occur to me that that
might have happened . Hopefully it's just a copy and paste error.


> Fooling def_whitelist_from_rcvd (given the actual
> list) is likely a harder target than finding a permissively-typo'd
> SPF record or cracking an account in one of the many domains in the
> other two, so I've got no problem with it being as strong as both of
> them combined. 

What I was getting at is that most of the existing entries are only
for dkim, so these only get half of the score for dkim+spf or rcvd. 
There are also some setups where DKIM, SPF and rDNS don't all work
correctly.

Ordinarily you only need about -4 points to eliminate almost all FPs.
But that changes if you are going down the path of whitelisting to
mitigate aggressive, local or third-part rules.    


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