>> Can you provide a legal citation? That would be really cool! > >1. Blocking EMail based on DMARC policy is illegal per �206 Abs. 2 Nr. 2 StGB. > >2. Actually, even looking at rfc5322.From (rather than MAIL FROM:) for > the purpose of looking up DMARC policy records > is illegal per �206 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 StGB. > >3. Any DMARC-triggered reporting about forwarded emails is also illegal > per �206 Abs. 1 StGB and �88 TKG. If that's true, how can spam filtering be legal? The phrase "without authorization" is pretty elastic, and all the ISPs I know consider themselves authorized to mange user mail any way they want. >The DMARC policy scheme is actually censoring of a telecommunication >between a messge sender and a message receiver through a telecommunications >provider by some _outside_ third party. So in the US a p=reject DMARC policy >might potentially be freedom of speech (1st Amendment) violation. Uh, no. The First Amendment does not affect private entities, and case law (White Buffalo vs. Texas) says that government entities have broad discretion to do network management when acting as ISPs. R's, John