On Thu 22/Dec/2022 19:40:57 +0100 John Levine wrote:
It appears that Alessandro Vesely <vesely@xxxxxxx> said:
I suspect that that /designating an address/ as wanted is an ill conditioned
filter leftover from the early anti-spam filtering attempts.
It's common for spam filters to use the recipient's address book as a
sender whitelist. It's not perfect, since it also needs to deal with
situations where the sender is faked, or the real sender's account is
compromised, but it works pretty well.
Used to work well until spammers found ways to steal address books.
If they were, users would be designating
a signing domain or an emitting domain, not an email address, as wanted.
I doubt that one mail user in 10,000 has any idea what a signing domain or
an envelope address is. Not gonna happen.
On the one hand they harass us with 2FA and on the other hand they don't
recognize the value of email authentication? I think, by now, the concept of
digital signature is understood by the majority of the people, isn't it?
Best
Ale
