Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-14 Thread Hector Santos
> On Jun 14, 2014, at 5:25 AM, Patrick Rauscher wrote: > > Hey, > > On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 22:35 -0400, Hector Santos wrote: >>> Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but it has seemed self-evident that you need a >>> single identifier that is displayed to the end user and 5322.From is the >>> only >>

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-14 Thread Patrick Rauscher
Hey, On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 22:35 -0400, Hector Santos wrote: > > Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but it has seemed self-evident that you need a > > single identifier that is displayed to the end user and 5322.From is the > > only > > identifier that even comes close to being the right one. (I don

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-13 Thread Hector Santos
> On Jun 9, 2014, at 11:17 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but it has seemed self-evident that you need a > single identifier that is displayed to the end user and 5322.From is the only > identifier that even comes close to being the right one. And that comes from t

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-13 Thread Hector Santos
On Jun 8, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Terry Zink wrote: >> Hector Santos wrote: >> >>> It is mentioned in Section 6, but the mention there doesn't even say >>> that it's the DMARC result that's supposed to be recorded. That bit >>> at least needs to be fixed. >>> >>> Anyone else have a comment? > >>

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-10 Thread Hector Santos
On 6/9/2014 10:38 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: Putting as much value on RFC5322 From as DMARC does follows conventional wisdom, but I believe that wisdom is flawed. Of course, that speaks to the advice you want to give: tell UIs that they should show the From addr-spec to users always. But be clear a

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, June 09, 2014 22:38:54 Barry Leiba wrote: > >>Putting as much value on RFC5322 From as DMARC does follows > >>conventional wisdom, but I believe that wisdom is flawed. > >> > >>Of course, that speaks to the advice you want to give: tell UIs that > >>they should show the From addr-spec to

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-09 Thread Barry Leiba
>>Putting as much value on RFC5322 From as DMARC does follows >>conventional wisdom, but I believe that wisdom is flawed. >> >>Of course, that speaks to the advice you want to give: tell UIs that >>they should show the From addr-spec to users always. But be clear >>about what you're asking for: yo

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-09 Thread J. Gomez
On Monday, June 09, 2014 5:15 PM [GMT+1=CET], Barry Leiba wrote: > > We based DMARC spec on the From header because it is visible to the > > end user. > > Yes. > Unfortunately, that's sort of a red herring. Most email clients show > the "pretty text" of the From (the display-name ABNF construct)

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-09 Thread J. Gomez
On Monday, June 09, 2014 10:54 AM [GMT+1=CET], Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > John Levine writes: > > > Recording stuff in A-R is fine. Advice about how MUAs should > display > them is not. Considering the dismal history of browser > warnings about > bad SSL certs, I would expect any user inte

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
John Levine writes: > People made this suggestion for l= DKIM signatures, too. l= DKIM signatures are a bad idea, precisely because in existing MUAs there will be no indication of what is covered by the signature, and what not. "Nobody" does that. But now mailing lists and other mediators are

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-09 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: > Unfortunately, that's sort of a red herring. Most email clients show > the "pretty text" of the From (the display-name ABNF construct) if it > exists, and actually *hide* the actual address (the addr-spec ABNF > construct). > > Putting as much

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
On June 9, 2014 11:15:18 AM EDT, Barry Leiba wrote: >> We based DMARC spec on the From header because it is visible to the >end >> user. > >Yes. >Unfortunately, that's sort of a red herring. Most email clients show >the "pretty text" of the From (the display-name ABNF construct) if it >exists, an

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-09 Thread Barry Leiba
> We based DMARC spec on the From header because it is visible to the end > user. Yes. Unfortunately, that's sort of a red herring. Most email clients show the "pretty text" of the From (the display-name ABNF construct) if it exists, and actually *hide* the actual address (the addr-spec ABNF cons

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-09 Thread John Levine
>Similarly in case of bypassing DMARC by wrapping the message, or a >length limit on the DKIM signature, IWBNI the unauthenticated parts of >the message were given a "nice UX" treatment semantically equivalent >to displaying it in grey45 on grey50, adding a big warning in red >explaining that From:

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
John Levine writes: > Recording stuff in A-R is fine. Advice about how MUAs should display > them is not. Considering the dismal history of browser warnings about > bad SSL certs, I would expect any user interface advice we give to be > counterproductive. Agreed. However, in case of "p=qua

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-08 Thread John Levine
>It is mentioned in Section 6, but the mention there doesn't even say that >it's the DMARC result that's supposed to be recorded. That bit at least >needs to be fixed. > >Anyone else have a comment? Recording stuff in A-R is fine. Advice about how MUAs should display them is not. Considering th

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-08 Thread Terry Zink
> Hector Santos wrote: > >> It is mentioned in Section 6, but the mention there doesn't even say >> that it's the DMARC result that's supposed to be recorded. That bit >> at least needs to be fixed. >> >> Anyone else have a comment? > > Only that it goes back to the similar SPF thing regarding

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-08 Thread Vlatko Salaj
On Sunday, June 8, 2014 5:30 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > I'm not so sure about the SHOULD i would stay with SHOULD/MUST combo. i would, actually, even suggest it to be MUST/MUST combo, but i leave that to general consensus, as there may be reasons not to go so strong, which i'm not curren

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-08 Thread Hector Santos
On 6/8/2014 11:30 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Vlatko Salaj Only that it goes back to the similar SPF thing regarding dynamic rejections. So to be consistent for DMARC: DMARC POLICY A-R Trace Guideline REJECT --> N/A see 55x reply codes. QUARANTI

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-08 Thread Dave Crocker
On 6/8/2014 7:18 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > If we want to > ask the MUA developers to do something to inform the end user about > authentication results, we sure as shooting should put our protocol > where our mouth is by putting in a requirement that MTAs give them > that information. Havi

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Murray S. Kucherawy writes: > I'm not so sure about the SHOULD because the only interoperability > A-R enables is stuff between the verifiers and the MUAs and humans, > really. It certainly wouldn't be a bad idea for us to highlight > how useful it would be though. I'm in strong agreement wi

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: > So I'm happy with advice to MTA, and I still think we should do an > advice to the MUA, by telling what is important to us. I think the BCP is the appropriate place for recommendations to the MUA. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are a couple of protocol layers lower than what MUA d

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-08 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Murray S. Kucherawy" > To: "Vlatko Salaj" > Cc: dmarc@ietf.org > Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2014 5:30:33 PM > Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Vlatko Salaj < vlatko.sa...

Re: [dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-08 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Vlatko Salaj wrote: > imo, what all current DMARC deployments lack is notice to > end receiver mailbox about any DMARC validation done on a > particular message, and how it validated. > > thus, similarly to Franck's Advice to MUAs, i would propose > adding this ki

[dmarc-ietf] advice to MTAs

2014-06-08 Thread Vlatko Salaj
imo, what all current DMARC deployments lack is notice to end receiver mailbox about any DMARC validation done on a particular message, and how it validated. thus, similarly to Franck's Advice to MUAs, i would propose adding this kind of txt to DMARC draft: "DMARC participating MTAs SHOULD inclu