Re: Review of draft-kucherawy-dmarc-base-04

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S Moonesamy wrote:
> 
> In Section 8:
> 
>    "If the RFC5322.From domain does not exist in the DNS, Mail Receivers
>     SHOULD direct the receiving SMTP server to reject the message."
> 
> Why is there such a recommendation?  What is a mail receiver?  I am 
> asking the question as there is "receiving SMTP server" in that sentence.

That would be silly.  RFC5322.From might contain no DNS domain to begin with.


> 
> In Section 10.1:
> 
>    "Have no RFC5322.From field (which is also forbidden under RFC 5322
>     [MAIL])"
> 
> Where is it stated in RFC 5322 that it is forbidden?  That RFC 
> specifies a syntax for the Internet Message Format.

Some MTAs (sendmail?) seem to recreate an RFC5322.From from the Envelope,
in case that it is missing in the message.

-Martin





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