RFC5322 3.6 states that ALL emails MUST have one and one only From: header.


Just dare to enforce it.

https://github.com/linkedin/dmarc-msys/blob/master/dmarc.lua#L655

On 11/6/12 7:33 AM, "Mason Schmitt" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:17 AM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, in the absence of a From: line, how do you
>> think DMARC should have guessed what domain to look for?  There is no
>> reason the From: domain has to match any other domain name in the
>> message.
>
>I assumed that in the absence of a From: domain, it would default to
>the envelope sender domain.  This is certainly what many MUA UIs do
>when trying to display where the message originated from.  If the aim
>of DMARC is to deal with the narrow scope of spoofing of the From:
>line, it would seem that MUA behaviour (displaying the envelope "mail
>from" as the message "From:" ) should influence the design of the
>DMARC algorithm.  Perhaps it is reasonable to fall back to the
>envelope sender in the absence of a message From: header?
>
>If this mailing list supports attachments, you can see how gmail
>displayed this test message.
>
>BTW, I noticed, from my initial post to this list last night, that 13
>recipients did not get my message because their message forwarder
>broke SPF and DKIM.
>
>--
>Mason


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