Yahoo DMARC breakage

Larry Sheldon LarrySheldon at cox.net
Wed Apr 9 23:22:51 UTC 2014


On 4/9/2014 5:11 PM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 05:49:27PM -0400, Jeff Kell wrote:
>>
>> The most "sane" out-of-mind response should only be sent *if* the
>> out-of-mind person is named explicitly as a recipient in the RFC822
>> header.  Anything To: somelist at somehost does not qualify :)
>>
>> Jeff
>
> 	and just how is an algorithm supposed to detect that
> 	<jeff-kell at utc.edu> is a single human and not a list?

It is really too bad that there is not place to put a "precedence" that 
the software could key on--with values like "bulk" or "junk" or "list".


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