On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 1:59 PM Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Ordering isn't guaranteed to be preserved.  I think the options are:
>
> 1.  Do not test for DMARC (current, no backward compatibility issues, but
> incomplete coverage).
>
> 2.  Test both and one must not fail (not clear if there are backward
> compatibility or reporting issues, doesn't solve incomplete coverage)
>
> 3.  Test both and both must not fail (probably not backward compatible,
> would
> need to figure out reporting, but does solve the "inadequacy").
>
> Given the rarity of multi-From messages and that anything with backward
> compatibility issues should have a high hurdle to clear for inclusion, I
> don't
> think there's a good case for anything other than leave it as is.
>
>
To be clear, what's "current" is what's in RFC 7489, which reads:

   The case of a syntactically valid multi-valued RFC5322
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322>.From field

   presents a particular challenge.  The process in this case is to

   apply the DMARC check using each of those domains found in the

   RFC5322 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322>.From field
as the Author Domain and apply the most strict

   policy selected among the checks that fail.


Option 1 above is proposed in DMARCbis as a way to mitigate the risk of a
DoS attack by a bad guy inserting a From: header with umpteen domains, each
of which would have to be checked.

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