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Re: Incoming SMTP in the year 2017 and absence of DKIM


From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 29 Nov 2017 21:13:27 -0000

In article <88a1ae22-a5c1-dc46-caa7-cca813109e99 () tnetconsulting net> you write:
 - Requiring Reverse DNS
 - SPF

I'm not commenting about the viability of these things, just that they 
are fairly well accepted and that they can trivially break mailing lists.

A mailing list sending with bad rDNS or bad SPF is a pretty cruddy
mailing list.  Normal lists put their own bounce address in the
envelope so they can handle the bounces, so their own SPF applies.

No idea why you think rDNS for a list's MTA is any harder than anyone
else's MTA.

R's,
John


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