Re: [ietf-smtp] DSNs
2020-04-27 17:09:07
Laura Atkins writes:
Forwarding can happen before the message hits the recipient’s mailbox (sieve,
procmail). Also, recipients may have per-user filters to /dev/null mail,
before the MUA gets it or afterwards - most MUAs allow for blocking. Often,
these are solutions implemented to avoid harassment or abuse and there is a
significant security / escalation risk for the people implementing the blocks
if the blocks are discovered.
I only dimly recall, a very, very long time ago, seeing precursors to modern
DSNs that included the exact details of what procmail did with a given
message. This was long before DSNs were standardized.
I have not seen any modern DSN that spills the guts to such a detail. All
the ones that I've seen, that follow the current spec (to varying degrees)
say nothing more than the mail was delivered (or not) to such and such E-
mail address without going into the details as to where exactly the mail
wound up, in the actual INBOX, or trash.
I do agree that I don't /quite/ see the value-added to the recipient of
implementing success DSNs. Or any DSNs, for that matter. If the receiving
mail server does not want the email it should reject it instead of accepting
it and generate a failure DSN. So, neither success nor failure DSNs really
have any value to the receiving party. But I do not see any security issue
with DSNs themselves, as specified.
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