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drhagenyesterday at 11:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

They spent a huge amount of complexity supporting mailing lists that claim mutated messages came FROM the original sender instead of FROM [email protected]. Is that use-case worth the additional effort?


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edelbittertoday at 12:45 AM

Yes! Forwarding is the reason mail flow authentication does not work very well today. Fix the forwarding use cases (and by extension: mailing lists & out of office arrangements) and we can finally just tell all senders: "Your domains do not match, please use DMARC so we can automatically detect whether that is OK. No excuses, no exemptions, your use case can be dealt with using DMARC!"

bombcaryesterday at 11:49 PM

Yes. Mailing lists are incredibly useful and very hard to change.