In article <CAL0qLwbTcYvf9HKREQi=w_lk8egra+k1v-qhs5zo_u25iun...@mail.gmail.com>,
Murray S. Kucherawy  <superu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Another way to look at this: DKIM (and I believe SPF) only really tells you
>something interesting when it passes.  That means (for DKIM) the content
>was unmodified, and the signature is validated by a key that is verifiably
>present in some domain's DNS data. ...

Yes, exactly. 

With SPF, no sensible person rejects mail on SPF -ALL other than the
special case of plain -ALL that means it sends no mail whatsoever.
Other than that, neither DKIM nor SPF can distinguish between "this is
fake" and "this was sent by a route that SPF/DKIM can't describe."

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Regards,
John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

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