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Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage


From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 18:22:51 -0500

On 4/9/2014 5:11 PM, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 05:49:27PM -0400, Jeff Kell wrote:

The most "sane" out-of-mind response should only be sent *if* the
out-of-mind person is named explicitly as a recipient in the RFC822
header.  Anything To: somelist@somehost does not qualify :)

Jeff

        and just how is an algorithm supposed to detect that
        <jeff-kell () utc edu> is a single human and not a list?

It is really too bad that there is not place to put a "precedence" that the software could key on--with values like "bulk" or "junk" or "list".


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