On Sunday, September 01, 2013 18:23:15 Raman Gupta wrote:
> On 08/31/2013 03:27 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 31, 2013 13:01:45 Raman Gupta wrote:
> >> The mail from domain name in the body of the message differs from the
> >> HELO/server hostname. But again, the HELO/server hostname is a valid
> >> SPF sender, based on an SPF "a" directive.
> >> 
> >> But DMARC imposes an additional requirement for identity alignment before
> >> it will use the SPF result.
> 
> But this would imply that my mail server should be configured to send
> "HELO mydomain.com" instead of "HELO mail.mydomain.com" where "mail"
> is the hostname of the mail server.
> 
> The default value for HELO/EHLO in Postfix is $myhostname, not
> $mydomain, and I believe most other mail servers send hostname as well.
> 
> It seems to me the DMARC spec should take into account that, for empty
> Return-Path's, the HELO/EHLO may be (and probably will be) a fully
> qualified hostname, not a domain, and adjust the rules for SPF
> identity alignment matching accordingly.

I think it does, as long as the hostname is a subdomain of the From domain.  
You'll need to at least have that.

Scott K
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