Am Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:38:02 -0400
schrieb Bill Cole via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>:

> On 2025-03-28 at 11:32:50 UTC-0400 (Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:32:50 +0100)
> Marco Moock via mailop <m...@dorfdsl.de>
> is rumored to have said:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > When trying to deliver DMARC reports to <dm...@u64.de>, I get
> >
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > <dm...@u64.de>
> >     (reason: 550 This address does not send an unsigned return
> > path.)
> >
> > What does this message mean?
> >
> > SMTP MAIL FROM is from=<postmas...@dorfdsl.de
> > Return-Path: <postmas...@dorfdsl.de>  
> 
> FWIW, those two are usually tightly bound: the Return-Path header
> does not normally exist until it gets created when the message is
> delivered *out* of SMTP (e.g. to a mailbox.) What can be be varied is
> the "From:" *header* address.

The message is a DMARC report generated by opendmarc on my machine
(srv1.dorfdsl.de)

> Most likely they have implemented BATV to reject bogus bounces. BATV 
> assures that all mail with a "From" header of postmas...@dorfdsl.de
> will have a SMTP sender address with a keyed modification of the
> "real" address.

This is rather confusing for me. I don't use BATV at all - neither I
use such addresses nor do I validate that in any way.
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