On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:52 PM, John Sweet <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 17, 2014 5:44 PM, Joseph Humphreys wrote:
>>
>> At one time I suggested adding a feature to list domains that could be
>> considered "in alignment" with yours. So if a domain owner wanted to
>> authorize an email service provider, they could just add something to their
>> DMARC policy to specify the domain the ESP uses for SPF/MailFrom and/or DKIM
>> signing. I am still curious what's wrong with this proposal.
>
>
> How is this not covered by SPF "include:"?
>
> If your message has both MAILFROM and RFC822 From: aligned on your domain,
> and the connecting IP is in the range of the included domain, it's all good.
>

I just replied to a similar question from John Levine, that I'm trying
to support a use case where SPF will not be in alignment: a
third-party sender that wants to handle bounces on behalf of the
author. Vlatko Salaj also brought up the case of using gmail to send
mail with a From header in your own domain. (Gmail seems to use your
gmail address as the MAILFROM address.)

Just to generalize the point: requiring alignment for the purpose of
using SPF to authenticate the From header has the unintended (I think)
consequence of restricting the Return-Path to the same domain.

An aligned-domain list would not have this consequence.

Regards,
Joe Humphreys

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