[mail-vet-discuss] More A-R bits...

[J.D. Falk]

On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:27 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote:

>   Authentication-Results: wmail.tana.it;
>     dkim=pass header.i=@mipassoc.org;
>     x-dkim-rep=neutral (-100 from al.dkim-reputation.org)
>                                   header.d=mipassoc.org

Many reputation systems can output much more detailed information, and many work on scales other than 0 to 100 (or -100 to 100.)  Even those which do use numeric values may not attach the same meaning to the same numbers.

> * "Report-To" (or "Reportable", or "Abuse-Report-To") as an additional 
> Authentication-Result method whereby the MTA responsible for receiving 
> the message conveys that, based on other methods and any additional 
> knowledge internal to the MTA, that host will accept an ARF for this 
> message. The syntax may be something like
> 
>   Authentication-Results: resp-mta.example.com;
>     report-to: abuse;
> 
> to mean <abuse at resp-mta.example.com>, which would be assumed by 
> default in case resp-mta.example.com is an SMTP host (MX/A/AAAA).
> Variations?

This part's definitely overloading Authentication-Results, IMHO.

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J.D. Falk <jdfalk at returnpath.net>
Return Path Inc