Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-24 Thread Ángel via mailop
On 2023-01-23 at 09:53 +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On Sun 22/Jan/2023 23:23:06 +0100 Ángel wrote: > > I should note that the user-is-in-bcc approach could be helpful wrt > > dkim-replay attacks, since the attacker-controlled account they > > used to > > receive the dkim-signed spam mail

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-23 Thread Slavko via mailop
Dňa 23. 1. o 9:43 Alessandro Vesely via mailop napísal(a): On Sun 22/Jan/2023 19:28:22 +0100 Slavko via mailop wrote: Cron jobs and another plethora of tools use email as an extra logging mechanism.  How could one distinguish that from "abusive" senders? Cron sends email viac exim's (aka

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-23 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Sun 22/Jan/2023 23:23:06 +0100 Ángel via mailop wrote: On 2023-01-18 at 16:52 -0800, Brandon Long wrote: Note that Gmail implements https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322#section-3.6.3 option 2, notably: In the second attac case, recipients specified in the "To:" and "Cc:" lines each

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-23 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Sun 22/Jan/2023 19:28:22 +0100 Slavko via mailop wrote: Dňa 22. januára 2023 13:11:44 UTC používateľ Alessandro Vesely via mailop napísal: I don't know how other MTA/MSA, but in exim that "relaying" from localhost must be explicitly configured (AFAIK it is in default/example config, at

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-22 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Bill Cole via mailop said: >Usually a command-line MUA on a POSIX system will use the local >'sendmail' implementation, which may be the "real" Sendmail or may be an >alternative such as that provided by Postfix, which directly injects >messages into a local mail queue rather

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-22 Thread Ángel via mailop
On 2023-01-18 at 16:52 -0800, Brandon Long wrote: > Note that Gmail implements > https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322#section-3.6.3 option 2, notably: >In the second > attac case, recipients specified in the "To:" and "Cc:" lines each are sent >a copy of the message with the "Bcc:"

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-22 Thread Slavko via mailop
Dňa 22. januára 2023 13:11:44 UTC používateľ Alessandro Vesely via mailop napísal: >Are classic command line tools à la mailx considered MUAs? Are you asking me? Both, the RFC 5068 and RFC 6409, defines MUA in similar way (with slighty different words): + RFC 5068: Mail User Agent

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-22 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2023-01-22 at 08:11:44 UTC-0500 (Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:11:44 +0100) Alessandro Vesely via mailop is rumored to have said: Are classic command line tools à la mailx considered MUAs? Yes. They typically send to local port 25, which accepts relaying from all local users. Not so much.

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-22 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Sun 22/Jan/2023 12:02:26 +0100 Slavko via mailop wrote: Dňa 21 Jan 2023 13:22:09 -0500 John R Levine via mailop napísal: Sorry, but I have no idea what model you are talking about. MUAs invariably send mail to the MSA over an authenticated channel, and I have never seen an MUA sign a

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-22 Thread Slavko via mailop
Ahoj, Dňa 21 Jan 2023 13:22:09 -0500 John R Levine via mailop napísal: > Sorry, but I have no idea what model you are talking about. MUAs > invariably send mail to the MSA over an authenticated channel, and I > have never seen an MUA sign a message's headers. That depends on what you

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Fri 20/Jan/2023 17:14:42 +0100 John R Levine via mailop wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, Alessandro Vesely wrote: RFC 5322 sec 3.6.3 says what to do. It says you can remove the bcc completely at submission time, or do what Gmail does and leave it in for the copies sent to the bcc recipients.

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-19 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Michael Peddemors via mailop said: >But looking through the RFC's there are no clear guidelines of an MTA's >responsibility in this regard. RFC 5322 sec 3.6.3 says what to do. It says you can remove the bcc completely at submission time, or do what Gmail does and leave it in for

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-19 Thread Brandon Long via mailop
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 6:35 PM Michael Peddemors via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > Thanks Brandon, > > for the quick response, and of course can confirm in those cases there > is no To or Cc recipients in that email, however we have a hard time > telling if this is a broken script kiddie

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-18 Thread Sebastian Nielsen via mailop
For incoming mail, if you see only spam with bcc set in the clear, reject it.Maybe make exception for hosts that you know is problematic, and just strip the bcc header.For outgoing mail, strip the header instead of rejecting.(in the same way I strip the Date header off every outgoing and

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-18 Thread Brandon Long via mailop
Note that Gmail implements https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322#section-3.6.3 option 2, notably: In the second case, recipients specified in the "To:" and "Cc:" lines each are sent a copy of the message with the "Bcc:" line removed as above, but the recipients on the "Bcc:" line get

[mailop] [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Allowing Messages with Bcc to travel the internet.

2023-01-18 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
I think everyone here knows that Bcc, is not meant to be transmitted in the clear, however what is the role of the MTA in that regard. DRE: [regex] comparison between list entry (Bcc: lynn...@watervalley.net?) and [^Message-ID\:\s\<[^\@]*\@mail\.gmail\.com\>$]; RESULT: [0] That line