Re: [mailop] Doesn't ARC substitute DKIM at Gmail inbound?

2024-05-05 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 5/5/2024 9:49 AM, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: DKIM proves that you did send it. No it doesn't. But that certainly is a common misconception about DKIM. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social

Re: [mailop] Google Mail rejects forwarded email despite `~all` in SPF

2024-04-22 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
.  The alignment with the From: domain is a DMARC requirement, not DKIM. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] mailop and DKIM signatures

2024-03-21 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
sometimes they will work and sometimes they won't. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] mailop and DKIM signatures

2024-03-17 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
.  Also note the reference to mailing lists, as being discussed here. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] mailop and DKIM signatures

2024-03-17 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
DKIM policy is reject or quarantine. That's DMARC, not DKIM. DKIM does a signature.  DMARC uses it (and/or SPF). d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org

Re: [mailop] % in SRS ?

2024-03-08 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
the string there -- that's the problem, not the choice of a semantic character. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] % in SRS ?

2024-03-08 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
the string there -- that's the problem, not the choice of a semantic character. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] % in SRS ?

2024-03-08 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
to mean "in care of", as well as to use a character that was not yet a 'special' for any (or at least most) operating system command interfaces. Note that @, for Arpanet mail, and !, for UUCP, were already taken.  So the range of choices was limited in 1979... d/ -- Dave Crocker B

Re: [mailop] Filter out emoji from email adresses

2024-03-06 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
, and yet a thread like this one here continues to happen. Universal Acceptance (UA) - ICANN <#>  https://www.icann.org/ua <https://www.icann.org/ua> d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mas

Re: [mailop] Mailop "best practices" - clarifications please

2024-03-04 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
the nature of the choices, the tradeoffs they have, and why there are preferences for each. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo

Re: [mailop] One click unsubscribe in mailing list messages

2024-02-24 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
be helpful for the Subject field to show that a mailing list is involved, though that will typically break DKIM... d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop

Re: [mailop] Opinions on what qualifies as a "false positive" RBL listing that should be fixed?

2024-02-15 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
. You want to mitigate that assessment. Don't. Because it doesn't mitigate it. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Is forwarding to Gmail basically dead?

2024-02-12 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 2/12/2024 7:13 PM, Mark Milhollan via mailop wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, Dave Crocker wrote: Certificates are not magic symbols of safety. I never said they were.  I said, paraphrasing though I see I should have been explicit, that Google could increase the number of people using S/MIME

Re: [mailop] Is forwarding to Gmail basically dead?

2024-02-12 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
practice makes it a reasonable assessment, at least for mail signed by some platforms. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo

Re: [mailop] Is forwarding to Gmail basically dead?

2024-02-12 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 2/12/2024 4:37 PM, Mark Milhollan via mailop wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, Dave Crocker wrote: 1. S/MIME has been around for 25 years. While it has gained    respectable amounts of implementation in MUAs, it has achieved use    only in specialized environments. Google could greatly

Re: [mailop] Is forwarding to Gmail basically dead?

2024-02-12 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
s with its use, and how exactly do you believe it will achieve that? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Is forwarding to Gmail basically dead?

2024-02-12 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
their crappy email. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
like people changing email addresses to get around filters. This is exactly the type of breakage, caused by From field re-writing, that has been entirely ignored, in spite of being cited with some frequency.  It is, to coin a phrase, an inconvenient truth. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 7/14/2023 11:20 AM, Paul Smith wrote: On 14 July 2023 18:24:45 Dave Crocker via mailop wrote: We need to 'encourage' people to run their own mail servers, not scare them away.. We also need to encourage people to do all the servicing for their car, to build their own house

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
with the realities of the division of labor. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-11 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
of them are not well cooperative + outdated or incomplete/wrong guides + lack of (open source) tools to work with eg. MIME mails In case this helps: RFC 5598: Internet Mail Architecture  https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5598 <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5598> d/ -- Dave C

Re: [mailop] SendGrid is deleting your mail

2023-06-24 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
but are no longer worth the effort (or that might actually be counter-productive.) The likely benefits will be simplification on the technical and operations side, and possibly better outcomes. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social

Re: [mailop] "header is missing" at Gmail

2022-11-09 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
it;y in this thread:  The blank line means that the From field is in the body, not the header. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:dcrocker@mastodon.social ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] DMARC Stockholm syndrome, Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-28 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 9/19/2022 11:59 AM, Brandon Long wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 11:10 AM Dave Crocker via mailop wrote: On 9/16/2022 7:35 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > So, while AOL & Yahoo were the vanguard for mass consumer providers, the problems were already being expe

[mailop] ARC field experience (was: Re: DMARC Stockholm syndrome, Reject vs spam folders)

2022-09-19 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 9/19/2022 8:07 AM, Alessandro Vesely via mailop wrote: ARC is the authentication of choice in this case because, being devised for this task, it is supposedly straightforward to configure for it, whereas whitelisting after SPF or DKIM smells like a hack. ARC is moderately complicated

Re: [mailop] DMARC Stockholm syndrome, Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-19 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 9/17/2022 8:12 AM, Jim Popovitch via mailop wrote: and DMARC was to fix what DKIM broke, and DKIM was to fix what SPF broke, and SPF was to fix (what was SPF suppose to fix, oh yeah... provider greed and irresponsibility). DKIM didn't break anything.  It has limitations, as do all

Re: [mailop] DMARC Stockholm syndrome, Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-17 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 9/16/2022 7:35 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: For 30 years, we allowed mailing lists to modify messages and take partial "ownership" of them (the mailing list gets the * Small factual nit:  Networked email was 50 years old, last year.  Mailing lists appeared almost immediately

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 9/14/2022 7:49 AM, Thomas Walter via mailop wrote: If I have to check a spamfolder for false positives every day, I can just have them delivered to my inbox. The spamfolder does not have an advantage then. Actually, it does, depending on how bad the false-positive and false-negative

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-12 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
- On 9/12/2022 7:01 PM, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: Because I disagree with the whole premise that self hosting mail is impossible today I believe 'impossible' is not the prevailing sentiment.  If it were, the various folk who run such services probably would be doing something else. I

Re: [mailop] double-singing with 2 independant DKIM-signatures for same domain

2022-08-26 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 8/26/2022 3:38 AM, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: Signing with 2 identical d= but different s= is unusual, but I don’t think it’s prohibited anywhere. It's certainly not prohibited in the DKIM specification. I also don’t think the RFC addresses anything about mail disposition in case of

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-25 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 7/23/2022 1:17 AM, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: On 23 Jul 2022, at 05:18, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: On 2022-07-22 at 12:45:18 UTC-0400 (Fri, 22 Jul 2022 12:45:18 -0400) Luis E. Muñoz via mailop is rumored to have said: On 22 Jul 2022, at 11:49, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: I

Re: [mailop] ARC and not ARC, was Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-28 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/28/2022 3:32 AM, Alessandro Vesely via mailop wrote: I agree that would've been better than ARC.  However, it'd still need to know which recipients are mailing list supporting DKIMv2 and operate accordingly. For example, on a reply-all the MSA should split the message and sign it

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-22 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/22/2022 4:21 PM, Rob Nagler via mailop wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 9:54 PM Dave Crocker wrote: > None of the relevant systems have C-R as a component, so I'm guessing > you mean this as an exemplar of the background stuff that happens > magically, to get an actor to be a

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-21 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/21/2022 8:25 PM, Rob Nagler via mailop wrote: Dave Crocker continues: > The existing repertoire of relevant email tech specs are for > authentication, except for SPF, which includes authorization of SMTP > client engines, and DMARC, which include rfc5321.From field do

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-21 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/20/2022 8:59 AM, Rob Nagler via mailop wrote: IMHO, the problem is a lack of a public trust model. ARC, SPF, and DKIM do not solve the trust problem. There should be some FOSS that implements the model (just like certbot implements ACME). We still need virus/spam detection algorithms.

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-21 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/21/2022 9:20 AM, Alessandro Vesely via mailop wrote: Mail forwarded by gmail, for example, has an X-Google-DKIM-Signature but is not otherwise DKIM-signed.  It is ARC-sealed.  (Brandon Long explained why a couple of years ago[*]). Hmmm. Sorry I missed his message when it originally

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-21 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/21/2022 12:07 AM, Alessandro Vesely via mailop wrote: RFC 5321, sect. 3.9 Mailing Lists and Aliases ... When a message is delivered or forwarded to each address of an expanded list form, the return address in the envelope ("MAIL FROM:") MUST be changed to be the

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-20 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/20/2022 9:05 AM, Paulo Pinto via mailop wrote: >ARC is motivated by the cases where DKIM/SPF/DMARC information about the >author/originator get broken. I'm truly trying to find a justification to break DKIM/SPF on a message after it is sent. SPF is designed to be extremely fragile.

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-20 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/19/2022 7:04 PM, Ángel via mailop wrote: Mailing lists must use their own envelope from when injecting list messages to the subscribers. Should and do. Not must. There's no formal requirement, just practical choice. But, yeah, changing the rfc5321.mailfrom to an addresss of the

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-19 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
It occurred to me that it might help for me to provide more context to the questions I asked. I was possibly relying too much on the thread context... On 6/18/2022 3:40 PM, Noel Butler via mailop wrote: I was a very early (even in testing) user of SPF,  It's rather commical reading these

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-19 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/17/2022 6:17 AM, Paulo Pinto via mailop wrote: tldr; what ARC tries to address is already correctly handled by DKIM/SPF/DMARC if used as designed. None of those provide an authenticated handling record in the message. ARC is motivated by the cases where DKIM/SPF/DMARC information about

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-19 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/17/2022 9:35 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: DKIM implies ownership that one doesn't want to use for relaying. FWIW, that interpretation of DKIM semantics goes beyond the DKIM specification, which, instead says: "DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) permits a person, role, or

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-19 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/19/2022 12:02 AM, Noel Butler via mailop wrote: I dont respond to smart arse trolls who have nothing better to do than try bait people, youve been around long enough to know exactly what I was talking about its nothing to do with lists its email standards if you dont understand that put

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-19 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 6/18/2022 3:40 PM, Noel Butler via mailop wrote: As for forwarding, SPF is only a problem if you dont follow standards and re-write Hi. You don't indicate what kind of rewriting you mean. It probably doesn't matter, since you seem to feel that mailing lists have to follow some

Re: [mailop] FTC Report on Feasibility of Creating a 'Do Not Email' List

2022-05-19 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 5/19/2022 7:57 AM, Luis E. Muñoz via mailop wrote: In this case, not really. oh. gosh. we've been wrong about this. for 20 years. d/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] FTC Report on Feasibility of Creating a 'Do Not Email' List

2022-05-19 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 5/19/2022 6:58 AM, Luis E. Muñoz via mailop wrote: On 19 May 2022, at 9:41, Dave Crocker via mailop wrote: So, sure. We haven't been able to do individual-level blocking, so let's add a requirement for an additional bit of complexity. That will probably make this mechanism work a lot

Re: [mailop] FTC Report on Feasibility of Creating a 'Do Not Email' List

2022-05-19 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 5/19/2022 6:30 AM, Luis E. Muñoz via mailop wrote: On 19 May 2022, at 8:42, Dave Crocker via mailop wrote: [⋯] Domain level is not sufficient. But is it though? A corporate providing email to its own users should certainly be able to express a policy that it does not want to allow any

Re: [mailop] FTC Report on Feasibility of Creating a 'Do Not Email' List

2022-05-18 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 5/18/2022 11:01 AM, John R Levine wrote:  but even though both are technically sound, nobody uses them outside of a  few specialized communities which suggests that it's not going to happen. btw, neither does cert management in a way that has been shown to scale across the open,

Re: [mailop] FTC Report on Feasibility of Creating a 'Do Not Email' List

2022-05-18 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 5/17/2022 8:44 PM, Luis E. Muñoz wrote: I wonder if this one ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money should be complemented with a crypto version, to avoid triggering those that hate cryptos being compared with money? Indeed. In fact it seems clear to me that this is

Re: [mailop] FTC Report on Feasibility of Creating a 'Do Not Email' List

2022-05-18 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 5/18/2022 11:01 AM, John R Levine wrote: Hm, your copy of the message appears to have been cut off.  Here's the rest which you presumably missed: I didn't. Your opening echoed my language, in a form casting it as taking exception to it. I was noting that your choice for interpreting

Re: [mailop] FTC Report on Feasibility of Creating a 'Do Not Email' List

2022-05-18 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 5/18/2022 10:32 AM, John Levine wrote: > It appears that Dave Crocker via mailop said: ... Note that, in spite of DMARC, we still do not have per-user >> authentication. We have at least two flavors in PGP and S/MIME, When something exists for 30 years and has market pe

Re: [mailop] FTC Report on Feasibility of Creating a 'Do Not Email' List

2022-05-17 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 5/17/2022 4:40 PM, Anne Mitchell via mailop wrote: "why we can't do that", culminating in "the Commission concludes that, under present conditions, a National Do Not Email Registry in any form would not have any beneficial impact on the spam problem. It is clear, based on spammers’

Re: [mailop] SMTP line wrapping breaking DKIM signatures when forwarding

2022-04-29 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/29/2022 10:55 AM, Brandon Long wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 9:39 PM Dave Crocker via mailop mailto:mailop@mailop.org>> wrote:   Perhaps:     An MTA that is relaying a message SHOULD NOT attempt to repair     problems it detects with the message.     If t

Re: [mailop] SMTP line wrapping breaking DKIM signatures when forwarding

2022-04-28 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/28/2022 1:52 PM, Dave Crocker via mailop wrote: If writing a formal specification, yes, one needs careful language. This isn't that exercise. This prompted me to consider language that might be suitable for an RFC. Perhaps: An MTA that is relaying a message SHOULD NOT attempt

Re: [mailop] SMTP line wrapping breaking DKIM signatures when forwarding

2022-04-28 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/28/2022 10:54 AM, John Levine via mailop wrote: It appears that Dave Crocker via mailop said: So, rather than changing the message, do simply relaying of the (unchanged) message, but also send a notification about the problem, back to the SMTP Mail-From address. Well, that's one

Re: [mailop] SMTP line wrapping breaking DKIM signatures when forwarding

2022-04-28 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/28/2022 1:25 PM, John R Levine via mailop wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2022, Dave Crocker wrote: Actually, for the current discussion, there is only a single issue:     Should an intermediate relay get fussy and modify the substance     of a message? That is one way to look at it, but as I

Re: [mailop] SMTP line wrapping breaking DKIM signatures when forwarding

2022-04-27 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/27/2022 6:57 AM, Paul Vixie via mailop wrote: i have a slight preference for "either relay it or bounce it but don't do a little of both". and  i must observe that in robotic e-mail, mail-from is often deliberately unreplyable. the only reliable error path is at the the end of DATA.

Re: [mailop] SMTP line wrapping breaking DKIM signatures when forwarding

2022-04-27 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/27/2022 6:30 AM, Michael Kliewe via mailop wrote: Exactly. The best and easiest solution is to contact the sender and tell them to fix the problem, by either using "relaxed/relaxed" or by reducing the line length to <=998 bytes. So, rather than changing the message, do simply relaying

Re: [mailop] SMTP line wrapping breaking DKIM signatures when forwarding

2022-04-27 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/26/2022 5:48 PM, Dan Mahoney via mailop wrote: The pedantic* answer here might be to make postfix smart enough to not apply this logic*if* there's a DKIM signature with simple/simple in the canonicalization. It is always tempting to react to a specific anomaly by adding a 'fix'

Re: [mailop] SMTP line wrapping breaking DKIM signatures when forwarding

2022-04-26 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/26/2022 10:37 AM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: Transforming messages for relay is not likely to go well. This seems an essential point. It would be worth pressing for some discussion on it, and if possible develop as strong a rough consensus on as possible. There is likely an easy

Re: [mailop] SMTP line wrapping breaking DKIM signatures when forwarding

2022-04-26 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/26/2022 2:49 PM, Robert L Mathews via mailop wrote: I suppose the argument in favor of it is that some other places you might forward to will reject a message solely because it has line lengths longer than allowed, so you can't win either way. This is an example of how it is useful to

Re: [mailop] Fwd: RFC 9228 on Delivered-To Email Header Field

2022-04-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/14/2022 5:22 PM, John R Levine wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2022, Dave Crocker wrote: Without knowing what mail software your provider is running, there is no way to tell. The benefit of an over-the-wire approach to specification writing is that all that matters is what goes... over the wire

Re: [mailop] Fwd: RFC 9228 on Delivered-To Email Header Field

2022-04-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/14/2022 2:09 PM, John Levine wrote: It appears that Dave Crocker via mailop said: On 4/14/2022 1:27 PM, John Levine via mailop wrote: Is anyone aware of any mail system that implements Delivered-To the way this document describes, Your query, to this list arrived at my inbox

Re: [mailop] Fwd: RFC 9228 on Delivered-To Email Header Field

2022-04-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/14/2022 1:27 PM, John Levine via mailop wrote: Is anyone aware of any mail system that implements Delivered-To the way this document describes, Your query, to this list arrived at my inbox with these header fields: Return-Path: Delivered-To: d...@dcrocker.net Received: from

Re: [mailop] Fwd: RFC 9228 on Delivered-To Email Header Field

2022-04-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/14/2022 8:19 AM, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: One thing that isn't addressed in that Dave, is cases where the Delivered To address exists, and the message is routed back out the internet,.  Still seeing cases in the wild where the Delivered To is added, but it isn't really the

[mailop] Fwd: RFC 9228 on Delivered-To Email Header Field

2022-04-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
Folks, This was just issued. It will aid in evaluating handling history of a messsage, especially through aliasing and mailing list sequences. d/ Forwarded Message Subject: RFC 9228 on Delivered-To Email Header Field Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 23:04:21 -0700 (PDT) From:

Re: [mailop] Best mailbox provider for personal domain?

2022-04-11 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/10/2022 5:26 PM, Philip Paeps via mailop wrote: They support +-addressing and also offer something called "subdomain addressing": Following Fastmail documentation, I just tried the subdomain scheme and it was rejected. (The + scheme works.) d/

Re: [mailop] Best mailbox provider for personal domain?

2022-04-09 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
I tested it, before posting my note saying they supported it. d/ On 4/9/2022 9:26 AM, Tara Natanson via mailop wrote: FASTMAIL - ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Best mailbox provider for personal domain?

2022-04-08 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 4/8/2022 6:40 AM, Tara Natanson via mailop wrote: Where would you recommend hosting your domain so that you can pop/imap, use "+" addressing, isn't spammer friendly, Fastmail seems to support + addressing. Hostinger does not. d/ ___ mailop

Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Comcast "Security Edge Report"

2022-03-16 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
I hope it is obvious that this represents a structural problem, not just an odd occurrence. I'm sure I'm not the only one who also has suffered this type of inability to get incorrect use of my address fixed because I wasn't a 'member' of the sending organization. d/ On 3/16/2022 7:40 AM,

Re: [mailop] Musings on Mail Service Operators

2022-02-02 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 2/2/2022 7:31 PM, Scott Mutter via mailop wrote: Why is it impossible to take a look at what Instant Messaging protocols, SMTP, SMS do that make them successful and then blend those together into a new "email-like" system? Because replacing widespread systems is vastly harder than one

Re: [mailop] Gmail does not validate DKIM for forwarded messages?

2022-01-31 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 1/31/2022 7:43 AM, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: In this scenario, my mailing list manager strips the original DKIM signature and applies its own, as I am now the party responsible for the message. (I also rewrite the from address.) This has worked fine for me, but not everyone is a fan of

Re: [mailop] 2 questions about BCC and mailing lists

2022-01-31 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 1/31/2022 9:43 AM, Geoff Mulligan via mailop wrote: 1. If a recipient on an email message is both in the To: or Cc: and on the mailing list, should the listserver send the message to the recipient: a) By default b) Not by default (but configurable) c) Never by default.

Re: [mailop] Walled gardens

2021-12-29 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 12/29/2021 4:40 AM, yuv via mailop wrote: Unfortunately, e-mail walled gardens are a Well Known Bad Idea. RFCs-based e-mail is a walled garden. We lawyers call this the Rule of Law. That's very creative. Not what is normally meant, and not even slightly useful. But very creative.

Re: [mailop] Ethics Complaint to Princeton (was: Bizarre GDPR/CCPA scam spam from Princeton researchers)

2021-12-21 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
FYI sigh. d/ Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [IP] Bizarre GDPR/CCPA scam spam from Princeton researchers Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:10:45 -0800 From: Edward Hasbrouck Organization: The Practical Nomad To: i...@ip.topicbox.com I got through today to the

Re: [mailop] Ethics Complaint to Princeton (was: Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton)

2021-12-17 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 12/17/2021 6:40 AM, yuv via mailop wrote: * On the big issue, the ENROLLMENT OF HUMAN SUBJECTS WITHOUT CONSENT into the study, I have been told that "[t]he IRB determined that our study does not constitute human subjects research." I haven't gone through an IRB process. So I've no idea

Re: [mailop] Idea for new internet standard: DKIM-QR

2021-12-12 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 12/11/2021 3:33 PM, Sebastian Nielsen via mailop wrote: The idea here was that it would be easier kind of, to create DKIM validation method, that only the sender and the sender's server need to be take part it, and then any user can validate the email, regardless of lack of support in the

Re: [mailop] Google DNS Quad 8 Outage tonight (Grant Taylor)

2021-11-23 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 11/23/2021 6:11 PM, John Levine via mailop wrote: On 11/22/21 12:25 PM, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: ... I'm going to lump "Site Finder" in the malicious category. No NXDOMAIN for you! Have this add instead!!! That was ten years ago, you know. 2003. Closer to 20.

Re: [mailop] WhatCounts/Costco silliness

2021-10-26 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/26/2021 9:56 AM, John Levine via mailop wrote: On the one hand, historically the opt-out has been in the body of the message, but a whole lot of mail programs now recognize List-Unsubscribe and give you an option in the frame of the message which is easier to recognize 1. But others

Re: [mailop] IMAP and SMTP in the same or separated IPs?

2021-10-18 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/18/2021 12:35 PM, Brandon Long wrote: Anyways, I stand by that there is unlikely to be overlap between people blocking your smtp server and your customers accessing your imap server... yup. and that's why I asked for a detailed explanation from anyone claiming a linkage. Haven't

Re: [mailop] IMAP and SMTP in the same or separated IPs?

2021-10-18 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/18/2021 10:56 AM, Brandon Long wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 2:35 PM Dave Crocker via mailop mailto:mailop@mailop.org>> wrote: On 10/15/2021 5:40 PM, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: > The motivation for spreading service IPs across different /24 prefixes

Re: [mailop] IMAP and SMTP in the same or separated IPs?

2021-10-16 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/15/2021 5:40 PM, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: The motivation for spreading service IPs across different /24 prefixes is so that if The issue here is not the generic one of using multiple IPs. It is about using them to separate IMAP from SMTP. That's an entirely different matter.

Re: [mailop] IMAP and SMTP in the same or separated IPs?

2021-10-16 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/15/2021 6:44 PM, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: I can see a hypothetical scenario where a client is running a firewall that is filtering connections based on IP reputation.  So if an SMTP server is erroneously listed, said firewall might block the IP, thereby blocking the client's

Re: [mailop] IMAP and SMTP in the same or separated IPs?

2021-10-15 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/15/2021 5:40 PM, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: On 10/15/21 5:37 PM, Dave Crocker via mailop wrote: Yes, but... That's the point that is intuitively reasonable which doesn't make real sense to me, after thinking about it. What doesn't make real sense to you?  The relation

Re: [mailop] IMAP and SMTP in the same or separated IPs?

2021-10-15 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/15/2021 2:17 PM, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: The question of IP-based reputation intuitively seems like it might make a difference, but I'm not seeing a practical sequence in which is actually does. I'd think that you would need the IPs to be in different /24 prefixes to avoid any

Re: [mailop] IMAP and SMTP in the same or separated IPs?

2021-10-15 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/15/2021 11:10 AM, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: That way when you want to migrate something, you can migrate it independently of everything else and you aren't forced to migrate everything at one time. This has always been the preeminent reason for separate naming that I've

Re: [mailop] How important is an ipv6 ptr record?

2021-02-10 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
be effective. The much larger address space makes it too easy for a bad actor to jump around and, therefore, not develop a bad reputation associated with the address. So non-history features are made more strict. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

Re: [mailop] RFCs on quoted pairs in From:?

2021-01-29 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
ay of dealing with this DMARC-generated issue: Author Header Field https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-crocker-dmarc-author/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-crocker-dmarc-sender/ DMARC Use of the RFC5322.Sender Header Field d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWor

Re: [mailop] RFCs on quoted pairs in From:?

2021-01-29 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 1/28/2021 7:22 AM, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: Dnia 28.01.2021 o godz. 07:11:54 Dave Crocker via mailop pisze: It's possible that a recipient's MUA could 'know' about this convention and would be able to deconstruct it, possibly with the goal of discerning the email address

Re: [mailop] RFCs on quoted pairs in From:?

2021-01-28 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
I'm just guessing. It might do this well or poorly, but it's still entirely outside of the formal standards. So it might be a bug, but not an RFC violation. Or it might be really clever and useful, in spite of surprising you. But I did say 'might'. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg Inter

Re: [mailop] RFCs on quoted pairs in From:?

2021-01-27 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
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Re: [mailop] Effeciveness (or not) of SPF

2020-12-06 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
to hear the basis for you assessment. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: BIMI pilot @ Google

2020-07-27 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
be taken as 'marketing' of a new capability pretty much beg for queries about the basis for its benefits. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ mailop mailing list mailop

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: BIMI pilot @ Google

2020-07-27 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 7/27/2020 7:59 AM, Marcel Becker via mailop wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:55 AM Dave Crocker <mailto:d...@dcrocker.net>> wrote: My quote above did not claim that. I explained why we participate in BIMI. Perhaps you have data to support a claim of differential user behavio

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: BIMI pilot @ Google

2020-07-27 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 7/26/2020 7:31 PM, Marcel Becker via mailop wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 11:12 AM Dave Crocker via mailop mailto:mailop@mailop.org>> wrote: On 7/22/2020 3:45 PM, Marcel Becker via mailop wrote: > However the majority of our users prefer meaningful avatars and

Re: [mailop] BIMI pilot @ Google

2020-07-26 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
data like this is mostly misleading. You need to be able to demonstrate that there is efficacy for the general user population. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https

Re: [mailop] BIMI pilot @ Google

2020-07-25 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
. Whether it it will have an effect on end-user deception is a different matter. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] BIMI pilot @ Google

2020-07-25 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 7/25/2020 2:06 PM, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: Dnia 25.07.2020 o godz. 13:21:02 Dave Crocker via mailop pisze: DKIM is intended for use by receiving filtering engines, not end-user evaluation. Apparently you believe that displaying security-related information to end-users is helpful

Re: [mailop] BIMI pilot @ Google

2020-07-25 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
like Gmail - that displays DKIM verification result). Isn't this a better approach? DKIM is intended for use by receiving filtering engines, not end-user evaluation. Apparently you believe that displaying security-related information to end-users is helpful? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg

Re: [mailop] BIMI pilot @ Google

2020-07-25 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
and substantial history that it isn't. To the extent anyone disagrees with this assessment, it would be quite helpful to see the data. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https

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