On 13/12/2021 17:19, Alessandro Vesely via mailop wrote:
Hi,

I assume everybody knows that RFC 5322 allows multiple mailboxes in the From: field.  This feature existed in RFC822 already.  I think it is to be used for those cases where multiple persons are authoring a message, albeit adding the list of coauthors is usually not done.  This message is an example.  How many rejects does it yield?

Gmail reacts like so:

Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Remote-MTA: dns; gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [108.177.119.27]
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550-5.7.1 [192.0.2.4      13] Messages with multiple addresses in From:
         550 5.7.1 header are not accepted. do22si22787062ejc.211 - gsmtp


Is it customary to reject messages with multiple addresses in From:?  Why?


Best
Ale


This is a clear case where RFC is wrong and bogus when one takes into consideration other Internet standards, for example DMARC or even DKIM. There is also a clear way to implement the behaviour you've described without such a violation: just add a Reply-To header with multiple addresses.

Rspamd has a high score rule to penalize messages with multiple from, as I've seen just spam with multiple from headers in practice like other people in this mailing list.
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