[mail-vet-discuss] New draft for review

J.D. Falk jdfalk at yahoo-inc.com
Tue May 29 16:34:29 PDT 2007


On 2007-05-29 16:10, SM wrote:

> The other issue is that the MUA may be parsing that header only.  If 
> I have two accounts, one with example.com and the other with 
> example.net, each with a different provider, My MUA would trust the 
> mail.example.com and smtp.example.net identifiers.  As the filter at 
> mail.example.com would only remove any instance of a header with its 
> identifier, a message coming through mail.example.com with an 
> Authentication-Results: smtp.example.net header would be trusted.

It sounds like there will eventually need to be a way to communicate the 
list of trustworthy identifiers to MUAs, but I think that'd have to be a 
separate (and potentially much larger) project.

-- 
J.D. Falk, Anti-Spam Product Manager
Yahoo! Mail


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