On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 8:59 AM Douglas Foster <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Right, but the messages often get sent anyway.   So the evaluator who
> blocks the message as malicious impersonation is blocking incorrectly
> because the fail result is unreliable.   If it only affects nuisance
> advertising, the error may not matter to the evaluator.  But I think the
> problem affects some messages that matter to the recipient.
>
> Doug
>

Blocking a message that fails authentication does not mean that the
evaluator assumes "malicious impersonation". It simply means the sending
domain in the From address has published a p=reject policy and has
requested that messages which fail to authenticate aren't authorized by the
domain, nothing more and nothing less.

Michael Hammer
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