On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 4:49:02 AM EST Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> On Tue 26/Jan/2021 23:36:19 +0100 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 11:47:51 AM EST Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> >> On Tue 26/Jan/2021 14:14:45 +0100 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 6:54:56 AM EST Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> >>>> I doubt that SPF filters report envelope-from=postmaster@HELO; more
> >>>> likely they write helo=HELO.  In that case, the paragraph quoted above
> >>>> is deceptive. >>>>
> >>>> 
> >>>>> I believe the proposed text is clear enough about not using
> >>>>> separate HELO identity results and that's appropriate. >>>>
> >>>> 
> >>>> My filter collects SPF results recorded from an upstream SPF filter.
> >>>> It writes Received-SPF: lines for each identity.  For NDNs, it writes
> >>>> a Received-SPF: for the HELO identity only.  Am I allowed to use that
> >>>> result for DMARC? >>>
> >>> 
> >>> No.  You should only use Mail From results.
> >> 
> >> So NDNs having only an aligned HELO will never pass DMARC?
> >> 
> >> And what is a <scope>helo</scope> element in aggregate reports provided
> >> for?>> 
> >> The spec says:
> >>           [SPF] can authenticate either the domain that appears in the
> >>     
> >>     RFC5321.MailFrom (MAIL FROM) portion of [SMTP] or the RFC5321.EHLO/
> >>     HELO domain, or both.
> >> 
> >> And then:
> >>     In relaxed mode, the [SPF]-authenticated domain and RFC5322.From
> >>     domain must have the same Organizational Domain.  In strict mode,
> >>     only an exact DNS domain match is considered to produce Identifier
> >>     Alignment.
> >> 
> >> So, consider the following message without DKIM signatures:
> >> 
> >> HELO example.org
> >> MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
> >> 
> >> Received-SPF: pass (domain example.org
> >> 
> >>    designates 192.0.2.1 as permitted sender)
> >>    identity=helo; helo=example.org;
> >> 
> >> Received-SPF: fail (domain of [email protected]
> >> 
> >>    denies 192.0.2.1 as permitted sender)
> >>    identity=mailfrom; envelope-from="[email protected]";
> >> 
> >> Subject: Not using a mail client for this example
> >> From: [email protected]
> >> 
> >> Does it pass DMARC?
> > 
> > No.
> 
> Let's not be silly, Scott.  We have example.org as the SPF-authenticated
> domain and it is aligned with From:.  Are you saying that the message would
> pass if it had an empty bounce address, but since it can bounce it does not
> pass?!?

All I'm saying is that DMARC only uses mail from results and that's 
appropriate.  I don't think the case of HELO name being aligned, but mail from 
domain is not is one to worry about.

Scott K


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