Amavis and OpenDMARC

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Sun Nov 12 05:11:08 CET 2023


On 12/11/2023 14:04, Noel Butler wrote:

>> My understanding of the "fo" option is that it is only used for 
>> reporting. i.e. It doesn't control whether the received email is 
>> accepted or not, which is always based on _either_ SPF or DKIM checks 
>> passing.
>> 
>> From RFC 7489:
>> 
>> fo:  Failure reporting options (plain-text; OPTIONAL; default is "0")
>> Provides requested options for generation of failure reports.
>> Report generators MAY choose to adhere to the requested options.
>> This tag's content MUST be ignored if a "ruf" tag (below) is not
>> also specified...
>> 
>> Nick.
> 
> Ahhh you're right, my very bad, I was confusing r/s ...
> 
> /slap shouldnt do email first thing early Sunday morning after being up 
> till 3am watching Cricket :)

You know the scary part...

I only recently, after being pestered by people whining how hard it is 
to do these things, published blog article series on DNSSEC, SPF, DKIM 
and DMARC, and even made that very point of fo's purpose...

time for my "scan"

(senior citizen afternoon nap :P )

-- 
Regards,
Noel Butler

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