Alessandro Vesely writes: > On Sun 31/Mar/2024 14:22:04 +0200 Douglas Foster wrote: > > On SPF, our document should say simply, > > " a DMARC-compliant evaluator MUST NOT reject a message, based on SPF > > result, > > prior to receiving the Data section and checking for aligned and verifiable > > signatures." > > > Nonsense. Rejecting at RCPT TO is much quicker than waiting for the whole > message. People who publish -all know what they do. > > I also reject based on RBLs and private IP lists; does that affect DMARC > compliance?
Yes, either one of those practices are not using DMARC to validate the messages. Of course you are allowed to do whatever extra checks you want for the incoming emails, you can even reject ever email coming in from ip-address is even number, but that is not DMARC. To implement DMARC you have to follow the rules set in the DMARC. I.e. if you are implementing DMARC you MUST follow the rules set in section 5.7.2 and the step 3 requires you to do DKIM signature verifications checks, which you can't do if you reject email before the you even see the body that contains DKIM signatures. Actually you can't do steps 1 and 2 of the 5.7.2 if you reject email before body as you do not know RFC5322.From domain, so how can you claim to be implementing DMARC if you do not even load DMARC policy record. So you can do whatever extra checks you want, but those are not part of DMARC, and should not be considered here. If you actually implement DMARC, you already MUST NOT reject a message based on the SPF results prior to receiving data section, as that is already mandated by the section 5.7.2 dmarc, so saying that again in the draft is not adding any new requirements, it is simply restating the same requirement in different words for implementors just in case they did not properly understand the section 5.7.2. -- kivi...@iki.fi _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc