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Re: Microsoft O365 labels nanog potential fraud?


From: Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:25:44 -0600

On 03/29/2017 09:12 AM, William Herrin wrote:
Both SPF and DKIM are meant to be checked against the domain in the
envelope sender (SMTP protocol-level return address) which the NANOG list
sets to nanog-bounces () nanog org. Checking against the message header "from"
address is an incorrect implementation which will break essentially all
mailing lists.

That may be what the original intent was.

Every SPF implementation I've seen has checked the SMTP envelope FROM address /and/ the RFC 822 From: header address.

Granted, that does not mean that it's the correct behavior.



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