The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Sieve Email Filtering: Reject and Extended Reject Extensions ' <draft-ietf-sieve-refuse-reject-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Sieve Mail Filtering Language Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Lisa Dusseault and Chris Newman. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sieve-refuse-reject-09.txt Technical Summary This memo updates the definition of the Sieve mail filtering language "reject" extension, originally defined in RFC 3028. The original Sieve "reject" action defined in RFC 3028 required use of MDNs for rejecting messages, thus contributing to the spam to victims of certain spoofing attacks. This memo allows messages to be refused during the SMTP transaction, and defines the "ereject" action to require messages to be refused during the SMTP transaction, if possible. Working Group Summary There is controversy, because the original author of the document, Matthew Elvey, objected during IETF Last Call, and does not like some of the decisions made by the WG. Elvey asked until the beginning of September to explain his objections and we are still waiting for these explanations. The WG chairs feel they have rough WG consensus on the document, particularly around the choices that Elvey disapproves of. Document Quality This is a revision to an existing standard, based on implementation and deployment experience. Thus, the quality of the document reflects that actual experience and feedback. Personnel Lisa Dusseault reviewed this document for the IESG. RFC Editor Note (Insert RFC Editor Note here or remove section) IESG Note (Insert IESG Note here or remove section) IANA Note (Insert IANA Note here or remove section) _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
