> On Sep 1, 2016, at 3:27 AM, Daniel Margolis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Right. I understood you, but that was my question--I don't see any reason to 
> remove hosts at worse preference from any invalid hosts, but only to remove 
> those at worse preference from the current host to avoid loops. In a 
> non-looping case, it's sufficient for the sending MTA to simply skip any 
> hosts that are invalid and do whatever it would otherwise do (including using 
> hosts of lower priority than the invalid ones). 

The mistake to avoid is removal of hosts deemed invalid by STS *prior*
to checking whether the current host is one of those.  That is, loop
elimination first, and only then STS policy on the remaining host.

Perhaps this seems obvious, but it is I think worth stating.

-- 
        Viktor.

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